iPad not recognized in Windows 7 Ultimate
Last week, I received an iPad 32GB WiFi as a gift. At this time I was running Vista Ultimate 64 on my home system. When I unboxed the iPad I read the instructions and installed iTunes 64-bit 9.2.1 on my Vista system. I connected the iPad and it was detected and iTunes launched. I registered the device and then it downloaded the OS update and successfully updated it to 3.2.2
I also received Windows 7 Ultimate and wiped my system and installed it. All the drivers are loaded from my hardware vendors (chipset, video, sound, etc). I know USB functions as I am able to plug in digital cameras, my passport drives, etc. and they are all detected and work fine.
I installed iTunes 64-bit 9.2.1 again. I logged into iTunes with my user account and that works fine. However, now when I connect my iPad to my system, I get Windows pop up messages telling me the device is not recognized and the driver could not be installed.
I opened device manager and after several unplug/replugs of the iPad, half the time I see "Unknown Device" and once I saw "Apple Mobile Device" with a yellow !.
I found Apple's KB article: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
I followed the instructions by uninstalling the "Unknown Device" and scanning for new hardware. It detects Unknown Device again. I then right clicked on Unknown Device and chose to update driver and navigated to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Drivers and trying to update the driver to use the Apple Mobile Device Driver but I get warnings and errors during this process. The warning tells me it isn't a compatible driver with the device and asks if I want to install it anyway. I chose yes. It installs but then it gives me an error telling me the device cannot start.
I don't know what is wrong. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks for the help.
Windows 7