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Originally Posted by cybmole
FWIW i don't think there is a kobo driver in windows 7. I looked in my drivers file for files with dates which approx match when I bought my aura HD & I see no obvious candidates. So I reckon it uses some standard windows driver, not anything specific that needs to come from the device itself.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
update - I connected my aura HD & checked device manager - it is using a standard windows driver - see picture
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Windows is fun that way. Yes, it's a standard driver -- it needs to read USBMS, and that is all. Doesn't stop it from needing to "install a driver" every time you use a new device even though it manifestly
isn't. I have no idea what the heck it IS doing, but for example on my slightly-dysfunctional WinXP partition, any time I connect a new device it takes 5 minutes (!!!), after popping up a threatening message about how it can potentially destroy the OS, to "install unsigned drivers". Five freaking minutes before Windows will recognize any USBMS hardware. And linux is always instantaneous, without requiring any imaginary drivers.
Windows.