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02-05-2007
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| | RE: Vista install blocked by Maxtor in Registry I was thinking that if you set the View setting in Device Manager to "Show hidden devices" it would show the drivers so that you could use Device Manager to uninstall them. "Orionc1" wrote: > How can I delete Maxtor OneTouch III registry entries so my Vista Upgrade > won't be blocked? Nothing is in Add/Remove nor in Start. A search of the > registry reveals a few entries. There are no Maxtor hardware devices > finstalled. Registry entries are legacy from helping another Maxtor user > format the external drive. > > Can I merely delete all Maxtor references in the registry and save? > > Error preventing install: > Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated > driver software for these devices: > SCSI and RAID controllers: Maxtor 7L250S0 > > -- > Orion |
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02-10-2007
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| | Re: Vista install blocked by Maxtor in Registry On Feb 5, 8:40 pm, Dan at ITAssociates <DanatITAssocia...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I was thinking that if you set the View setting in Device Manager to "Show > hidden devices" it would show the drivers so that you could use Device > Manager to uninstall them. > > > > "Orionc1" wrote: > > How can I deleteMaxtorOneTouch III registry entries so myVistaUpgrade > > won't be blocked? Nothing is in Add/Remove nor in Start. A search of the > > registry reveals a few entries. There are noMaxtorhardware devices > > finstalled. Registry entries are legacy from helping anotherMaxtoruser > > format the external drive. > > > Can I merely delete allMaxtorreferences in the registry and save? > > > Error preventing install: > > Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated > > driver software for these devices: > > SCSI and RAID controllers:Maxtor7L250S0 > > > -- > > Orion- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Dan, Thank you very much. I hate it when the answer is so simple and I didn't thinkl of it. Orion. |
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