Comments on: Windows Vista Tip: Enable Any USB Drive To Work With ReadyBoost

By: yall arestupid

yall arestupid — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:15:41 +0000

y'all are stupid!!!

By: jazz

jazz — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:40:32 +0000

is there a way to Restore my usb back from readyboost…like when i use 3415mb of usb memory to ready boost i can get it back?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:29:56 +0000

This Wont Work for me, i follow all the steps it just doesnt work :{ any help?

By: Padraig

Padraig — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:43:30 +0000

For Windows 7 you have to also create a key(DWORD 32) "DoRetestDevice" and put it to "0"
Its because w7 is testing the usb drive everytime now and you have no option to disable it.

By: raymund

raymund — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:39:50 +0000

i'm using windows seven starter, and thers no Dont retest box. any option?

By: Jason A

Jason A — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:21:03 +0000

This is brilliant

Bought a 4GB Stick and it wouldnt work on readyboost but now it does, thanks.

Jas

By: Matt Henson

Matt Henson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:16:35 +0000

Thanks a lot this worked great. although I have to say I went a little further and by deleting a lot of the keys that were their. In fact I deleted them all. This way when i plugged it in their would only be one. It seems every time you unplug it and plug it back in with out unchecking the "Stop Retesting the device when I plug it in." box it makes another registry key for the same device. So i had a lot of duplicate keys their that I did not need. Once I did that and just worked you method with one key it fixed it perfectly.
The only issue i have now is trying to understand why it now suggest to use zero (0) MB for optimal performance. It use to suggest to use just under 4GB like 3820MB or something close to it. Not sure if it has to deal with the fact that I am on Vista x86 Ultimate SP1 RC with 4GB of RAM or not.
Now that it is fixed I think I might just not use readyboost. I read that it does not work well with more than 2GB of RAM.
Anyways Thanks again for this. I am going to keep a link to this post for future reference.

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:37:15 +0000

@Al Myers

Check Device Manager and see if there are problems under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers". Also check your BIOS to see if anything is disabled.

If you still cannot resolve the issues check out the thread at:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1254561&SiteID=17

Several fixes were found that may help.

By: Al Myers

Al Myers — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:55:46 +0000

My problem is that Windows Vista will not recognize ANY usb drive that I connect. It goes through the "new hardware" cycle and in the end tells me to contact the manufacturer for the latest driver. I am using new usb 2 thumb drives from different manufacturers as well as two SmartDisk FireLite drives which it also fails to recognize. I've searched but can't find a solution. Any ideas?