Good morning to you Leonard, how are you today ? 

 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> 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 ?

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

        You got me here. I do not know if there is actually an IDE
        interface anywhere as such. I think that it is part of the OS to
        enable this function.  No ?

        Anyway all is academic now as I found it again by doing a redo
        of the OS.

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