Corrupt hardware enumeration registry keys

[Luke]

Hello,
over time I've connected several external hard drives to my PC.
Sometimes things screwd up during hardware recognition and I ended up with
some corrupt keys under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR

Here I list only the corrupt key names, that should display "Maxtor" instead
of "Maytor" and other garbage.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Maytor!6&Prod_M210Q0!_!_!_!_!&Rev_CAK4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Ma|tor$6&Prod_L240T0$_$_$_$_$&Rev_FAN4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Oa{tor#6&Prod_O230Q0!_!_!_!_!&Rev_CAK4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Oa{tor#6&Prod_O230S0#_#_#_#_#&Rev_CAK4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_]axtr06&Prod_L200P00_0_0_0_0&Rev_BAJ4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_]aytr16&Prod_M210Q01_1_1_1_1&Rev_CAK4]

The same corrupt names also appear in keys under
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}

Is it advisable/safe to delete all those keys?
Can they cause any trouble?

Thank you,
Luke

 

[Guest]

Just so long as those keys have nothing to do with hardware needed by the
system (i.e. your 'C' drive) then you should be fine with deleting them. I
use a USB cable for my cell phone to transfer information back and forth and
it was causing problems for me, so I uninstalled the registry keys from the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ directory. This acts in
kind of the same way as uninstalling your hardware.

After you delete these keys, after you re-connect your device it might
re-install the hardware back to this location, unless it's already installed
properly.

When working with the registry though, remember to ALWAYS back it up. This
can save a lot of headaches if something goes wrong. In Registry Editor go to
File -> Export, give your file a name, choose a save location (some place
where you'll remember where it is), choose All for the Export Range, and hit
save.

-Dan