USB drive error

[Emiplays]

Recently I have experienced an issue when plugging in any usb storage device. In device manager when I right click on the usb drive it there is a driver error code 38 (Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory.) I have tried fixing this by unisntalling the amd usb controller, usb root hub, usb mass storage deivce, generic usb hub and usb composite device in device manager however this only allowed the usb device to work if it was lugged in when the computer posts and when it is unplugged and plugged back in I once again get the driver error 38.

Does anybody know any way to fix this?

[A.Hruskach]

There is a setting somewhere that ties with the device manager that will prevent Windows from reinstalling drivers automatically. This setting helps to troubleshoot devices because it prevents a problematic driver from being used by default. I don't recall where the setting is, but it's just a dialogue box that pops up with two options. Give this a try when you reinstall your driver's.