Uninstalling/disabling Primary IDE Controller

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Hi all, i made a mistake by updating my generic WinXP "Primary IDE
Controller" with something called "esdi ide/itapi..." (not sure on the
rest).

The thing is, i can't uninstall or disable it now! I want to put back
the generic Primary IDE Controller (and Secondary IDE Controller) but
i am unable to.

Does anyone have any advice?
 
Under Device Manager you should be able to "roll Back" to previous driver
peter
| Hi all, i made a mistake by updating my generic WinXP "Primary IDE
| Controller" with something called "esdi ide/itapi..." (not sure on the
| rest).
|
| The thing is, i can't uninstall or disable it now! I want to put back
| the generic Primary IDE Controller (and Secondary IDE Controller) but
| i am unable to.
|
| Does anyone have any advice?
 
peter said:
Under Device Manager you should be able to "roll Back" to previous
driver
Click to expand...

I tried that, but the rolled back driver is one i don't want. And i
don't have the uninstall option on that either.

But i have made some progress. I updated my primary driver to
something that was incompatible with my system. After a reboot this
brought my machine to the "Windows cannot start due to a hardware
issue....blahblah". From here you can choose "Boot to last good
configuration"

Instead of choosing this i put my winxp cd in the drive, hit
alt-ctrl-del and booted into setup off of the cd. I then went as usual
to reinstall windows (in the vain hope the repair option would appear)
and it did! Instead of wiping everything with a clean install, i just
installed winxp over the top of my current install. This meant i lost
no data or installed apps (although i did lose all my winxp updates).

My IDE drivers were back to the way i wanted and my burner was working
again. It is still in multi-word DMA mode 2.....but i can live with
that as it doesn't really affect the burning speed.
 
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