USB - Wrong install from the start

I am currently sorting through about three different cases where my clients have installed USB devices with the wrong driver. Somehow these items work about 70% and I'm to correct the other 30%. A USB CD-RW was installed that writes just fine but locks up after every burn. A Sony mem card reader disables the ATAPI Zip etc. Once a USB device is installed incorrectly, is there an easy way to correct it? I have tried reloading the correct drivers, but it vomits on me and reverts back to the wrong driver.
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Have you tried going into device manager and deleting the driver before re-installing? If that don't work, then you might have to manually remove the driver from the hard disk to get it to work.

I am at the point where I need a good procedure for manually removing the link between the device and the incorrect driver. For example, the Sony Memory reader is listed as a Generic USB Hub. When I remove it, since Generic USB Hub is in the default INF files, it loads it. If I change the driver under device manager, it states that the driver is incompatable. I know that the driver is the correct one, so what I really need to know is how to remove the association for things like "Generic USB Hub." :eek:

You might try going through your INF folder and finding the one it's stuck on and removing it.

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You might try going through your INF folder and finding the one it's stuck on and removing it.

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And also force into safe mode, then goto device manager and remove all usb Devices then go to the INF folder. Has worked for me