Vista OS doesn't recognize I-phone- asks for drivers

I did the 2.2 upgrade during syncing-- phone and i-tunes froze. Now I-phone (1st generation) has flashing sync symbol; reset doesn't do anything; tried to restore, but when connecting phone to computer I get the vista 'new hardware found' message, asking for location of drivers for 'unknown object'.
I did a system restore on the computer to before the sync, hoping to 'reinstall the drivers'-- does an I-phone even HAVE drivers? I can't find a file on my computer with them---
Any other ideas?

Wow-- excellent! I directed the windows device manager to the folders mentioned in the article at the link you provided, and now the laptop recognizes the phone. I just did the 'restore' operation, and the used the back-up to re-install everything (I'm glad I backed up-- I almost skipped it!).
Thanks for your help!
JJ

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