Failed to uninstall the device

Case 1. When attempting to remove a hidden VMBus network adapter, you may receive this message: "Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer"

Case 2: My NIC stopped working yesterday, and Device Manager reported that it
had problems (Error 31) because Windows could not load the driver. So I
attempted to uninstall it so that Windows could re-find it and
re-install. I received the error message: "Failed to uninstall the
device. Device may be required to boot up computer."
Windows Driver Uninstall: "Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer."

Case 3: "Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer"
This happened to me today on an Acronis restored Small Business Server box (to different hardware using universal restore).

The issue is that the HP server that the image came from had HP drivers that ended up blocking the broadcom drivers on the Dell server I was moving to. The way to fix the issue is as follows:
1. Go into a command prompt.
2. type “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1”
3. Hit return.
4. Type “devmgmt.msc”
5. Hit return.

Once device manager has loaded, go to View, Show Hidden Devices.

You will then see “greyed out” old devices and network cards that you can remove.
Once you reboot all should be well.
2. Logon Safe mode to remove it.
3. More Advanced, if you are not sure, please comment!, screwing up the registry is sometimes irreversible)
Open device manager (either from control panel or type ‘devmgmt.msc’ in Run…)
Right click on the device that you are tying to uninstall
Choose ‘Properties’
Goto ‘Details’ Tab

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