Espruino dead on windows 8 after first write

Yes, thanks for posting up - Maybe if windows doesn't find drivers when you first plug the device in, it just stops looking in future, even if you then install the correct drivers.

You can probably also fix it by going into Device Manager, going to the properties on the device with the problem and choosing 'Update Driver' - and as you say, then manually pointing it at the right directory.

P.S. Code tags (```) do work, but you need to have an empty line before and after them (I just altered your post). I think it's 'normal' markdown, but some Markdown parsers (like GitHub's) have now started accepting the code tags even if they're not spaced out with a newline.