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mbed serial issues

I'm having a lot of issues communicating with my mbed 1768 over serial. I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit and am using a functional USB cable. My mbed is using the latest firmware and I've tried multiple USB ports. I've tried removing drivers, rebooting, reinstalling drivers, etc. and the issues persist.

1. When I connect the mbed to my PC and it shows the drive storage, it randomly disappears and I have to reconnect the mbed.

2. After connecting to the mbed with serial (when it works) using the correct COM port, the mbed drive storage disappears when serial is closed. I cannot reconnect to serial unless I unplug the mbed and back in.

3. I ran an example that was supposed to echo characters I entered in serial back to me, but none of the characters were displayed. It also appeared the mbed froze as the button on the top of it would not reset it.

4. I've tried putty with the correct serial settings and teraterm

Overall, I'm seeing a lot of instability with the mbed as a storage device and a serial device. Any suggestions or should I give up and use Ubuntu which doesn't require drivers?