Recently, I had an issue with my MSP-FET430UIF showing up in the device manager as "other devices".
The emulator had successfully worked in the recent past (Feb 2013) with CCS5.3 and the MSP430 Flasher - Command Line Programmer.
OS is Windows 7 x64
The windows driver for MSP-FET430UIF had possibly been removed or damaged.
The device manger->properties->details->hardware IDs are VID 2047 and PID 0010. This is the VID for the USB_CDC driver.
Solution
The driver is included with TI CCS5.3. Download and install if not already done.
In Device Manager, right click and choose "update driver software".
Choose "Browse my computer for driver software"
Choose your path as "C:\ti\ccsv5\ccs_base\emulation\drivers\msp430" . Be sure include sub folders is checked.
The driver should install.
The device will install as MSP-FET430UIF - CDC in the device manager and should operate normally with CCS5.3 etc..
My mistake was assuming the correct driver was the USB_FET_Win7_64 and pointing the update driver path to this folder. The FET driver is VID 0451 PID F430 (pre CDC update firmware perhaps?).
If the device installs correctly but does not work in CCS or Flasher, you may have a com port # conflict with a HID device, other posts have covered that issue.
This is information only, I will not be monitoring this post.