I was playing a game, my pc shut off. Rebooted, my boot ini and hal.dll had screwed one another. So I did a nifty Windows Restore that restores all my drivers and crap to their original, which means I had to go in and install all my drivers for gfx card, network, etc. I get along to my dfp, which only shows up as 'Driving Force' in the game controllers, so I try to install the drivers. Blabla, asked to overwrite old drivers, because windows restore doesn't remove any files, just registry and other crap. So i get to the wingman installation, the destination folder is empty. So i set a destination, hit install. I go there, nothing there. I try running the files it installed in the first part, none of it would run, or gave me errors. So my DFP totally doesn't work, doesn't show up in device manager, can't remove from control panel, not in add/remove programs, what the hell do I do? I need help ASAP.
Thanks.

Use "Windows Installer Cleanup" to remove any knowledge Windows has of the software. Then remove any files relating to the software. The re-install.

I donwloaded it, it doesn't even show up on its list, aswell as many other isntallations are missing.

Could have you not just have restored it do a previous date? I know my computer saves a checkpoint every night at around 8, so If i have a problem I just do a quick restore to the night before and all is well again.

Windows totally crashed. I couldn't get to the recovery console or anything, let alone IN windows.

I had the same problem while installing my new drivers after a Windows backup. Just make sure you have the latest Windows Installer and everything should be fine