Thanks for the post, I only searched these boards on how to remove drivers specifically, the memory card topic only confirms what I already know, changing the bios settings or removing the usb device works, you can think or this topic as the same problem but with a different solution as a work-around that I can automate, plus I've already made a topic on msfn asking specificly for similar solutions (how to disable them using unattended methods or otherwise).
Removing all USB MS devices from showing up in the text mode setup is fine, I can just use a dif cd when installing xp on ext/usb drives (which should make that ext drive C: anyway since thats my problem), unless you mean they will be disabled in windows after install too, if thats true then could there be a way to install them later in setup or in the/as a finisher?
thanks for the replies