-=> Quoting JEAN PARROT to LEONARD ERICKSON <=-

 JP> 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).

 JP> I did remove them and they were gone but when the bootup found
 JP> them again, it was missing something that prevented the
 JP> 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.
 JP> 
 JP> It was not the driver or the device that was at fault. I would
 JP> like to know how one can remove that IDE controller and reset
 JP> it physically that is, like one can remove a CD device ? That
 JP> was my problem. The CD was fine, operational and connected as I
 JP> could see and use it when booting to DOS. Not a card, Len

So disable the IDE interface in the BIOS. :-)


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