I finally broke down and got an iPhone over the weekend. Since I spend the most amount of time on my work computer, I decided I’d use that as the main machine to sync it with. Monday morning I eagerly plugged the phone in, only to have Vista (Vista Ultimate, 64-bit) tell me it couldn’t find the driver for my new “digital camera” and iTunes ignore the iPhone. As someone who’s built a computer from scratch, I’ve found that drivers are always the first thing to check when your OS is behaving unexpectedly, and a quick Google search brought up this blog. My experiences were slightly different than his, so I thought I’d share them here.
1. Go to Computer, right click and choose “Properties”
2. Select the Device Manager
3. Scroll down to Portable Devices, and find the device with the missing/bad drivers. On the blog I found, the device was listed as an iPhone. On my machine it was called a Digital Still Camera. Right click on the device, and choose Update Driver Software.
4. On the next screen choose “Browse my computer for driver software”
5. Browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple and select this folder. After a minute or so of updating, all should be well.
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July 26, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Sean Corfield
Considering that Vista (and Windows in general) is touted as a consumer-friendly operating system, doesn’t this sort of thing worry you? How would the average PC user figure this stuff out? They don’t read technical blogs and such…
July 27, 2009 at 12:24 am
Dominic
I think Vista had considerable issues with drivers and that was a huge mistake on MS’s fault. I’m not sure what you mean by “worry”.