Removing ALL traces of a device EVER having been plugged into a USB port?

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Jamie Furlong

Freecom Classic SL 80Gb USB HD on XP HomeSP2 - the BIOS check time for my PC
has increased massively, and is still a bit longer than usual even when
drive is unplugged from USB port. How can I clear ALL entries from the
registry, and start again, maybe in a different port?
The strange thing is, I can "speed up" the boot time again, but doing the
"hold power button with cable out" trick, which is usually for the memory
card slots.

Even when I uninstall the freecom software, it still "remembers" the
driver - what I want to do is unplug and remove ALL traces of it, and start
again.

Has anyone else got a freecom external HDD? In fact, it was working OK with
version 2.17 of the software, except that it wouldn't compress and protect
filenames with a square bracket in them, hence the need to try v2.20, which
is when it all went wrong!
 
J

Jamie Furlong

It gets stranger! With drive plugged in to ANY port, nothing shows in
"add/remove programs", but pull drive out and it populates!
Weird? I should say!
 

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