Vista - Accidentally uninstalled wrong disk drive-can I reverse it?

I admittedly know very little about hardware and all that goes along with it. With that said, I was having a problem with Vista no longer recognizing USB drives. I found and followed the solution at (USB stops working after recent Windows Update) and had success until the last step. In the device manager, I had accidentally opted to uninstall "FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL ATA Device" rather than the adjacent USB drive. I caught the mistake (unfortunately a little late) and so opted not to restart the system so that the uninstallation would not take effect.

In 'Properties' of the aforementioned ATA Device, the 'Device status' reads:

"This device is working properly.

The drivers for this device will be uninstalled when the machine is restarted. Any changes you make to this device will not be preserved.

You need to restart your computer before the changes you made to this device will take effect."


I gather that I do not want the ATA Device uninstalled: is there any way to go about cancelling or reversing that command? If I do reboot and the device is uninstalled, I am assuming that it would make my disc drive nonfunctional (again, I know nothing about this...) If that were to happen, how or could I even reinstall it? I have tried contacting Fujitsu about this but they will not be able to get back to me until at least tomorrow.

As a sidebar, I am operating Windows Vista on the HPdv2500 notebook.

Many thanks for any help in this time of confusion. I will learn, eventually -_-



ctbird

When you reboot Vista will detect your "uninstalled" SATA drive and re-install it

Norm