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!

"Jamie Furlong" <reply@thisgroup.please> wrote in message
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> 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!
>