I can't see your computer from here. You will have to search within each of
those entries till you find the one for your dysfunctional drive. Then
delete it and reboot.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Mike Gura" <MikeGura@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63BF530C-A3FA-4288-AA8D-85DD075B3690@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Richard, what you are saying makes full sense. My quandry though is
> which controller controls the drive in question. I will try to reproduce
> what
> I see in divice manager below:
> -IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> Intel(R) 82801FB Ultra Storage Controllers - 2651
> Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F
> Primary IDE Channel
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondary IDE channel
> My concern is that I may remove the Hard drives controller not knowing if
> it
> would automatically reinstall itself. And is it as simple as highlighting
> the
> properline and hitting delete?
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> If you try to read a damaged disk the system will drop the reader from
>> DMA
>> mode incrementally downward to PIO mode in trying to read the disk. Then
>> it
>> will stay there.
>>
>> To correct this, go to device manager and remove the IDE controller for
>> the
>> drive in question. Reboot. The IDE port will be found and reinstalled at
>> its
>> full speed.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "Mike Gura" <MikeGura@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:371BD1F1-9BF2-4E58-9757-7E4399F26875@microsoft.com...
>> >I tried to read a damaged disk in my DVD-ROM drive and I assume it
>> >slowed
>> > down to try to read it better, but now anything I try to read in that
>> > drive
>> > is very slow. While my second drive (the burner) is much faster at
>> > reading
>> > When the used to both take the approximate same time. I used to read
>> > from
>> > one
>> > and burn to the other but it takes too long now. Is there a way to
>> > check
>> > if
>> > it dropped the default read speed and hasnt restored to max? I found
>> > the
>> > burn
>> > speed on the burner but nothing for read speed on either?
>>
>>
>>