[JoyBoy]

Have you tried regediting the registry to remove whats left of Easy CD? I had a similar problem a while ago? Nero would tell me I cant install it because Adaptec was found on my machine... and that I had to remove it... but I did!. Then I found out there were some files remaining in the registry. I removed anything relating to Adaptec/Easy CD. Try it, much better option then having to take the drastic action of formatting your hard drive.