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waterfireTD 
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Subject: win 7 device manager issue
I can't seem to uninstall the driver for an external HD I have. I reformatted 2 weeks ago and finally got around to installing the external HD to get a saved Database off of it. The drivers wouldn't install properly, so I told win 7 which drivers to use. The drive still doesn't work. Whenever I try to uninstall the listed device the "Uninstall device" window appears, but it never actually uninstalls. It just sits there with a green bar moving.

 

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Did you already disconnect the device? If not, try that.

Ive never installed drivers for my External Harddrives.

 

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I did. It was stuck in the device manager. I was finally able to remove it using a cmd prompt utility; however, it has now created a new issues.

First, My G110 keyboard is no longer detected. I even reinstalled the software. Only reason I noticed my keyboard wasn't loading properly was the backlit keys stopped working.

Last, my PC now gets stuck on the shutting down screen. Normally it would take only a few seconds, but last night I was forced to shut down after it was stuck on the screen for 10 mins.

Guess I am going to reinstall win 7. Luckily I have a notebook that I was able to transfer important files too.

 

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Wow.  Hopefully this is just an OS corruption issue. Sounds like possible hardware.

Did you try a Registry cleaner before the reinstall?

 

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yes. The win 7 reinstall didn't fix the drive issue. This drive is like 12 years old. Its an old WD combo firewire/usb drive for which WD hasn't updated it since the days of Win ME.

I took the HD out of the enclosure. It's an IDE drive, so I am hoping it was just an interface issue and not the actual drive. I am waiting for a windows update to finish before I can test it.

 

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Ahh.  All my Externals are Real drives with bought cases. 

did the Reinstall fix the Keyboard issue? On that same note, USB enclosure, usb keyboard...I see a link here happy

 

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BIOS sees the IDE drive intermittently. I doubt even me booting into ultimate boot cd would help.

 

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sounds like it might be time to remove all its contents and discard it.  But then I would keep eyes open for another IDE driver to put back in the enclosure as it sounds like the drive is the issue.

 

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Keyboard issue was that windows wouldn't detect my G110 as plugged in. Win 7 kept installing basic hid keyboard drivers. I had to unplug it and then plug it back in. Never had I had to do that with this keyboard ever.

 

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