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Vanity - 98 Wizards...HELP!
Self | 09/24/08 | 50sdad

Posted on 09/24/2008 7:17:34 PM PDT by 50sDad

Can anyone remember...there are 2 files in Win98 that "remember" the drivers database. It was a trick in years past, that if you corrupted your drivers, you could "force" a rescan of the database by deleting these two. I though they ended in .idx and lived in the system folder, but I am hitting a dead wall and can't remember them.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 98; question

1 posted on 09/24/2008 7:17:40 PM PDT by 50sDad
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To: 50sDad

Drvdata.bin and Drvidx.bin. They are located in the inf folder.


2 posted on 09/24/2008 7:23:41 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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I don't know myself, but this makes it sound like Drvdata.bin and Drvidx.bin.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275499

3 posted on 09/24/2008 7:24:59 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: 50sDad

Drvdata.bin and Drvidx.bin ?

Troubleshooting Device Driver Issues by Using the Driver Information Database
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275499


4 posted on 09/24/2008 7:26:16 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ShadowAce

ping


5 posted on 09/25/2008 3:04:13 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn
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