Gee, what`s wrong with me?, I wanted to uninstall the DVD R/W drivers and I did the hard drive ones instead. (Windows Media Edition, by the way)
I dont know how to cancell that, and I´m a bit worried about what will happen when I restart the laptop, specially since the DVD drive is not working so if I need the drivers on the Windows CD Im royally screwed, I think…
So, in short; HELP, HELP! what have I done! :dubious:
Ouch. You appear to be able to get online, so I would try downloading the DVD drivers first and get those reinstalled. Then do the same for the HD drivers. Only then would I restart.
I’m surprised you were able to get this far. I accidentally uninstalled my HD drivers once and the computer locked up immediately.
They automatically reinstalled during the next startup, though. Good luck!
Am I right in assuming that there wont be any loss of data on the HD? The one I stupidly uninstalled are for the HD not storing the OS, just lots of personal data; so it should start up OK but Im a bit concerned about losing stuff.
Any recommendations on where to get the drivers? the HP website has many drivers but none for the HD or DVD drives. My laptop is an HP Pavillion DV8000.
Reboot - the HD drivers should be re-installed at startup and should reboot without a problem. Note the operative word - “should”.
If you don’t need to reinstall, so much the better, but if you do need to reinstall from disc, the DVD drive boots way before the OS (i.e. in the BIOS) so you should be able to boot directly to DVD without loading Windows at all. You might need to set the BIOS to recognise the DVD drive as the primary boot device, or on some systems you might need to ‘press space bar’ or some such to boot from CD, but most if not all BIOSs have boot from CD capability.
Actually, a reboot should help with recovering the DVD drivers as well.
I doubt it will cause any harm. Removing them doesn’t actually delete them and Windows is generally smart enough to reinstall them on reboot. It has native HD drivers as well to serve in the mean time.
Does Windows ME have restore points? Just a word of reminder in case what “should” happen doesn’t.
Good luck!
If you want to try reinstalling the drivers without rebooting, open Device Manager, right-click the computer name heading at the top, and hit Scan for hardware changes. It should put things back.
Unless I’m greatly mistaken the OP is using Windows XP Media Center Edition, usually abbreviated as “MCE”. “ME” refers to Windows Millennium which is wholly unrelated. It did have a System Restore option but that, like the rest of its features, was generally worthless.
Everything beyond Win98 has restore points; it’s just that restore points as everyone well knows don’t always work.
This is a minor problem, though; either scan for hardware changes in dev man or a reboot should solve it.
I had to restart the laptop today (I had been hibernating it). All is good.
Except for the DVD drive that`s still AWOL for some reason. But that was a pre-existant condition.