Re: Accidentally Uninstalled the Wrong Drive (Need to Canel Pending Ev

It will come back, because you aren't going to disconnect it.

DaveR wrote:

I am having trouble with an external hard drive BUT I just accidentally / stupidly uninstalled the wrong device / disk drive (using Device Manager) -- I accidentally selected the local/interal hard drive (i.e., Drive C:).

I realized my error before rebooting "for changes to take effect" so now I have to figure out how to cancel this pending operation.

Q: How does one cancel a pending (upon reboot) Device Manager device uninstall????



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