Remove Starport Storage Controller

[qionized]

i was evaluating an installation of starwind on windows 2008 r2 server core. after uninstalling the software, the Starport Storage Controller still shows up in device manager/System Information. How can i remove this from the system?

[anton (staff)]

Go to Control Panel, click System, open Device Manager, expand the tree, select "StarPort Storage Controller" and remove it checking "delete files" checkbox.

P.S. StarWind V5.8 and up should have no kernel components by default.

[qionized]

thank you for the quick reply. unfortunately, windows 2008 server core does not have control panel / device manager, so this method will not work. i'm thinking that i need to delete some registry keys and perhaps a .sys file or two, but i do not know precisely which ones and don't want to screw up the server.

ps. as an aside, it's not resource usage i'm concerned with so much as the fact that the starport driver causes microsoft's cluster validation tool to throw warnings (this server will be part of a failover cluster).

[anton (staff)]

It does not matter. You can remotely manage devices just fine. Here's step-by-step guide (just in case):

http://www.petri.co.il/remotely-manage- ... 8-core.htm

There's no way to bypass Microsoft limitations that's why we have to withdraw monolothic SCSI port based component from StarWind installation.

thank you for the quick reply. unfortunately, windows 2008 server core does not have control panel / device manager, so this method will not work. i'm thinking that i need to delete some registry keys and perhaps a .sys file or two, but i do not know precisely which ones and don't want to screw up the server.

ps. as an aside, it's not resource usage i'm concerned with so much as the fact that the starport driver causes microsoft's cluster validation tool to throw warnings (this server will be part of a failover cluster).

[qionized]

again, thanks for the follow-up.

You can remotely manage devices just fine.

unfortunately, Device Manager is always read-only when run remotely (i have seen postings that intimate otherwise, but they are incorrect--see section on device manager here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee441255(WS.10).aspx), so this will not work.

I did find a solution, however:

1.) If necessary, re-install Starport iSCSI server and Starport Driver.
2.) open a command prompt and cd to the install directory (default: C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind\)
3.) uninstall the driver:

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DrvInst.exe -uninstall root\starport uninstall

4.) uninstall everything else:

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unins000.exe

5.) remove install dir:

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rmdir /s "C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\"

[Anatoly (staff)]

Nice!:)

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[anton (staff)]

Know what? You're cheater Anatoly We all LOVE self-supporting customers but you do it in a very clumsy way

Nice!:)

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