techie question

[jumpy]

Since I have removed SF, how do I see if all of my old windows ide and dvd drivers are back to normal? I rember somebody posting about disabling these drivers then rebooting windows to push the OS into re-writing them...
As you may guess I still have some read/write problems with my DVD-RW.
Any help appreciated.

[SUBMAN1]

If you are unsure, just reinstall them.

-S

[jumpy]

Ta. I guessed as much, but does this require using the windows 'repair' feature to fix the installation from the XP disk, or will windows automatically 'reboot' the drivers all by itself if I remove them?
- I'd like to avoid a format

[Gizzmoe]

Windows automatically reinstalls the drivers. Open the device manager (Right-click "My Computer", Properties, Hardware, Device Manager), uninstall the IDE controller and reboot.

[jumpy]

Interesting, looking at it it would appear that my IDE ATA/ATAPI controller is nforce based- I'm guessing this would mean reinstalling the motherboard drivers from the disk that came with the board (gigabyte ga-7n400-l nforce2 chipset) I recall having to use the motherboard drivers instead of the default ones from window$ once before, as I had some hardware type problems or something...

Looking at my DVD drive is ok though - uninstall the driver, reboot and os reinstalls the driver automatically

If I were to get the latest nforce1/2 WinXP2K_WHQL driver and dpdate my existing mobo drivers would this amount to the same as allowing window$ to find its own drivers if I uninstall the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, avoiding the issue I had before concerning os and mobo drivers?
I'm a bit leery of uninstalling system drivers as this action has prompted a boot failure and subsequent reinstall of the os in the past
So rather than removing the existing IDE controllers I 'update' them instead with the latest (or whatever) nforce1/2 drivers from Nvidia? Effectively this would mean downloading the new nforce driver from nvidia and overwriting the old one.
Sorry, loads of questions I know, but I'd rather not bite off more than I can chew with the time left of my holiday (back to work tomorrow) If it's going to be a hastle I might just leave well alone and reshedule my yearly os format a little closer. If I'm going to do that I'd rather it was my choice to be prepared to do such a thing than be forced into it by my bodging about with the system drivers

[Jesper]

Do either:

A: unstall your DVDRW driver and reboot
B: unplug the drive, boot, power off, plug it in and boot

no need to uninstall/reinstall any drivers windows will do that for you, and no need to remove the IDE driver either.

[jumpy]

Cheers dudes