Good morning to you Leonard, how are you today ? 

 LE> Boot into Safe mode, and then go into Device manager and delete the
 LE> IDE stuff (and any other stuff that you no longer have in the system).

        I did remove them and they were gone but when the bootup found
        them again, it was missing something that prevented the
        initialization.

 LE> Then reboot. Windows doesn't actually *remove* the drivers if you just
 LE> pull the hardware or even if you remove the device after a normal
 LE> boot. You have to do it in safe mode.
 
        It was not the driver or the device that was at fault. I would
        like to know how one can remove that IDE controller and reset it
        physically that is, like one can remove a CD device ? That was
        my problem. The CD was fine, operational and connected as I
        could see and use it when booting to DOS. Not a card, Len


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