Changed SATA controller to Standard instead of AHCI. Help me remove.

[Compman55]

On windows server 2008 R2 I had a cmos battery die. When I reconfigured the bios, I forgot to set the SATA mode to AHCI, upon bootup, windows re-detected all my SATA drives as standard. How can I remove these? They do not show up in the device manager. Since this occured, I get funny errors in my administrative events.

Back in the windows xp / server 2003 you could boot in safe mode, and see the hidden, inactive devices.

 

[ArisVer]

Check for AHCI setting in the BIOS.

 

[Compman55]

That is not what I am saying.....

I already changed it back to AHCI, but like anything hardware that gets detected, its still hanging out in there somewhere behind the scenes.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Device manager, view, show hidden devices, uninstall?

 

[Compman55]

I watched the hard drives be re-detected, but like I said they are not there.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-remove-old-unused-device-drivers-in-windows-7
That's all I got.