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From: Joe on 26 Jun 2010 15:19
I stupidly, twice - after using USB flash drives- just pulled them when done
without properly removing them. Now they are permanently listed in my
"device manager" and in "my computer". I went into device manager and tried
to uninstall them. It seemed to work but the next time I booted up- Vista
found drivers and now they're back in "my computer" and the device manager.
This doesn't seem to be causing a problem but I'd like to get rid of them.
Joe


From: Rod Speed on 27 Jun 2010 14:34
Joe wrote:
> I stupidly, twice - after using USB flash drives- just pulled them
> when done without properly removing them. Now they are permanently
> listed in my "device manager" and in "my computer". I went into
> device manager and tried to uninstall them. It seemed to work but the
> next time I booted up- Vista found drivers and now they're back in
> "my computer" and the device manager. This doesn't seem to be causing
> a problem but I'd like to get rid of them.

Have you tried safely removing them like you should have done in the first place ?


From: Joe on 28 Jun 2010 07:12
Just tried that- installed a new flash drive- but it added a new letter-
didn't use one of the old ones- then when I chose to "remove" it- the OS
just removed the new letter.


"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Joe wrote:
>> I stupidly, twice - after using USB flash drives- just pulled them
>> when done without properly removing them. Now they are permanently
>> listed in my "device manager" and in "my computer". I went into
>> device manager and tried to uninstall them. It seemed to work but the
>> next time I booted up- Vista found drivers and now they're back in
>> "my computer" and the device manager. This doesn't seem to be causing
>> a problem but I'd like to get rid of them.
>
> Have you tried safely removing them like you should have done in the first
> place ?
>

From: Arno on 28 Jun 2010 11:00
Joe <joe(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Just tried that- installed a new flash drive- but it added a new letter-
> didn't use one of the old ones- then when I chose to "remove" it- the OS
> just removed the new letter.

It the problematic flash maybe not marked as "removable"?

Arno

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From: GMAN on 28 Jun 2010 12:36
In article <i0a02k$odj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Joe" <joe(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Just tried that- installed a new flash drive- but it added a new letter-
>didn't use one of the old ones- then when I chose to "remove" it- the OS
>just removed the new letter.
>
>
Boot in safe mode and remove them?




>"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:88pjunFtvoU1(a)mid.individual.net...
>> Joe wrote:
>>> I stupidly, twice - after using USB flash drives- just pulled them
>>> when done without properly removing them. Now they are permanently
>>> listed in my "device manager" and in "my computer". I went into
>>> device manager and tried to uninstall them. It seemed to work but the
>>> next time I booted up- Vista found drivers and now they're back in
>>> "my computer" and the device manager. This doesn't seem to be causing
>>> a problem but I'd like to get rid of them.
>>
>> Have you tried safely removing them like you should have done in the first
>> place ?
>>
>
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