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your business ITProGuru Home Resources About How to Find a Lost, Missing, Hidden or Removed Network Card (NIC) or Other Device and Even Remove it ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Dan Stolts ITProGuruSeptember 25, 201023 0 failed to uninstall the device network adapter 0 0 In a scenario where you have physically removed hardware from a machine
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you can no longer see it in device manager. This does not mean that it is gone. Evidence of that is,
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if for example you had a network card that had a Static IP address set and you remove the card and add a new one then try to set the IP address to the same https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269155 as the old NIC you will get an error message. The error might look something like “The IP address 192.168.30.100 you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter (Microsoft Virtual machine Bus Network Adapter #3) which is no longer present in the computer. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they both become active, only one of them will use this address. This https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/danstolts/2010/09/how-to-find-a-lost-missing-hidden-or-removed-network-card-nic-or-other-device-and-even-remove-it/ may result in incorrect system configuration”. In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 it actually gives you an opportunity to “remove the static IP configuration for the absent adapter”. If you say Yes, this will eliminate the IP conflict problem but does not solve the problem of the adapter still being present in the machine. In older versions of the OS, it was even worse because every time you go into network properties it gives you an error message. Another way this comes up is if you move a virtual machine from one host to another. Like in the case of moving from Virtual Server 2005 R2 to Hyper-V or perhaps you are moving from one Hyper-V machine to another but you did not do an export, you just moved the VHD’s and created a new machine. Getting rid of these old devices is actually very simple. Well, it is simple if you know how 😉 Before you proceed, I recommend that you confirm that you have a good backup. I have never had a problem with this but hey, it is your server not mine. Description What to do Step 1: You need to run a command prompt so you can set an environment variable p
Team GFI Top posts Bloggers Contact Menu Like what you see? Subscribe to our blog feed and never miss a post. How to remove hidden network adapters from virtual machines Nicholas Sciberras on August 4, 2010 (5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5) http://www.gfi.com/blog/how-to-remove-hidden-network-adapters-from-virtual-machines/ 2 comments When using virtualization on a Microsoft environment such as Hyper-V you can easily have network problems when restoring a Virtual hard drive or changing a network card. With some operating systems on Hyper-V you may notice that the network adapter http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/ghost-82-multiple-network-card-error “MS Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter” name changes and a number is associated with it, example “MS Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter #3”. This happens when you load an image from your backup. This will sometime cause network connectivity issues, due network adapter to the fact that other network adapters will still be configured (hidden) in the device manager which still lock your IP address. This will also cause the issue whereby although you configure the current network adapter (as seen in the Device Manager), no network activity can be achieved. Unfortunately these devices will not show directly in your device manager, so the following steps must be taken. This can easily be removed by opening the command prompt with administrative access and typing the show hidden network following command: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 start devmgmt.msc This will start the Device Manager. It is important to start the Device Manager from the same command prompt, since it will lose the setting to show the non present devices. If you open the Device Manager from the Control panel, the hidden devices will not show. When the Device Manager loads, from the File menu, expand the View and select the Show Hidden Devices option. This will enable and show any old un-used devices in the window. From here, expand the Network Adapters node and you can right click on the devices which are extra and delete them accordingly. Another method which can be used to identify the hidden devices is a free tool from Microsoft called ‘devcon’ which is a command line alternative to the Device Manager, but it will not work since it only removes present devices. Maybe Microsoft will be adding this feature in the future releases of the tool, but for now, although it will show hidden devices, it is not capable of removing them. It will give an error saying ‘Remove failed. No devices removed.’ After this is done, your network adapter will be free and you can set up the correct network settings. This method of hidden device removal can be used for any type of device. Since this option may come in handy in your daily job, it would be best to configure the setting to show non-present devices in the