USB pen problem

I got a new 4gb USB pen so that I can move some stuff from my XP computer to my Vista laptop. XP has no problem recognising it even if I plug and remove it several times but the problem is that if I put it into my Vista, it recognises once but if I remove it and put it back in again, it makes the noise that it recognises it.. and then nothing. I made sure all the drivers are up to date but it still does this. How can I fix this?

try a different usb plug, sometimes windows puts a driver on each port. there is a program that clears drivers on each port but i forgot what it is called