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"ms" wrote in message ...
snip Before I do some (for me) drastic steps, a basic question occurs. My controller setup originally occurred when the tech set up my BIOS in 1997. The machine ran really troublefree until 2001 when he added a second CD writer and second hard drive. It ran fine for years until about 4 months ago. Until then, my W98SE was far less trouble than I see on this ng, or hear about from friends. I maybe had 3-5 BSOD a year. Starting 3 months ago, I got black screens on startup. Virus and spyware scans seldom show anything. The tech said tape over the insert key held down, may have caused the black screens. He said my lineup of partitions between 2 physical drives was wrong. I pointed out they were working like that for 3 years, he renumbered them for a "normal" lineup. The machine is fine for the last month, but then the CD drives died. The Recycle bin is OK, there's a hidden file that's the problem. When he renumbered the partitions, I don't think it would effect the controllers. With 2 physical drives, I had a C and D partition on one drive, my CD writer drive was E, the second drive had F, G and H partitions. The second CD drive was not hooked up then. He said that does not follow windows standard lineup. Except it worked fine for 3 years after he installed the CD writer drive and the partitions numbered themselves that way. He just didn't notice at the time, and since it worked, I was happy. I believe you are mis-remembering. Your CD drive could not have a drive letter between the letters of the partitions on the first drive and the second drive, at least not in Win9x. Hard drive partitions are always enumerated before optical drives....always. glen: What do you mean by "he renumbered them"? You current drive configuration shows that the first physical hard drive has drives C: and E:, while the second physical drive has drives D:, F;, and G: This means that you have a Primary on the first drive (C:\), and a Primary on the second drive (D. He changed the nomenclature that way. Unless you have an operating system on both those physical drives, there is really no reason to have any primary partition on the second drive....an Extended partition with Logical drives would have served just as well. I think you may mean that the tech changed the first partition on the second physical drive to a Primary, which shuffled drive letters around. Is this correct? I'm sure you're right. So it worked for months after that, as you see it. Also, I cold boot each day, so if something is wrong, it shows up. Which leads to my basic question below. If my controller lineup is basically wrong, how reasonably could both CD drives work fine for about 3 years? There is nothing wrong with the "lineup"....there is only something wrong with the fact that you are seeing the secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) in msinfo32, but not in Device Manager. I have no idea how recent this occurence is. Your description of the CD drive letter being between those of the hard drive partitions sounds erroneous. It appears the tech changed the order of the drive letters by making a primary on the second physical drive....for which there really is no reason, but there is nothing "wrong" about that either. However I cannot tell for sure what was done, as I am not confident in all the info you have given regarding the past history of the drive letters. Since the tech you refer to changed this somehow, despite the fact that there were no problems, perhaps you should ask him these questions, since only he knows what he actually did, and why. The suggested changes are serious enough IMO that I will print this out and see him. But any comment on the above is appreciated. The issue of the missing controller in DM could be due to a lost BIOS setting that needs to be re-enabled, or a faulty cable, or a dead drive, or a faulty controller on the motherboard, or....... Without getting hands-on, I can not tell what is happening. Hence the suggestion to go back to the original tech and get an accurate history and have him check the components and configuration. You could simply have gotten the controller disabled somehow. Even an electrical surge can change BIOS settings. I would like to know what the tech does and what is found. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm |
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Thanks again, Glen.
Maybe a clue, below: glee wrote: "ms" wrote in message ... snip Before I do some (for me) drastic steps, a basic question occurs. My controller setup originally occurred when the tech set up my BIOS in 1997. The machine ran really troublefree until 2001 when he added a second CD writer and second hard drive. It ran fine for years until about 4 months ago. Until then, my W98SE was far less trouble than I see on this ng, or hear about from friends. I maybe had 3-5 BSOD a year. Starting 3 months ago, I got black screens on startup. Virus and spyware scans seldom show anything. The tech said tape over the insert key held down, may have caused the black screens. He said my lineup of partitions between 2 physical drives was wrong. I pointed out they were working like that for 3 years, he renumbered them for a "normal" lineup. The machine is fine for the last month, but then the CD drives died. The Recycle bin is OK, there's a hidden file that's the problem. When he renumbered the partitions, I don't think it would effect the controllers. With 2 physical drives, I had a C and D partition on one drive, my CD writer drive was E, the second drive had F, G and H partitions. The second CD drive was not hooked up then. He said that does not follow windows standard lineup. Except it worked fine for 3 years after he installed the CD writer drive and the partitions numbered themselves that way. He just didn't notice at the time, and since it worked, I was happy. I believe you are mis-remembering. Your CD drive could not have a drive letter between the letters of the partitions on the first drive and the second drive, at least not in Win9x. Hard drive partitions are always enumerated before optical drives....always. I am a senior with bad sleep, and my memory is not what it used to be, but I really had this lineup, copied from old system audit data: Drive letter C:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 4994 MB Free space 3425 MB Space available to caller 3425 MB Drive letter D:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 3021 MB Free space 1250 MB Space available to caller 1250 MB Drive letter E:\ Type CD-ROM Disk space usage Cannot reliably detect Drive letter F:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 1066 MB Free space 297 MB Space available to caller 297 MB Drive letter G:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 1066 MB Free space 869 MB Space available to caller 869 MB Drive letter H:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 302 MB Free space 302 MB Space available to caller 302 MB C and D were partitions on my master hard drive, F, G and H were partitions on my old (became slave) hard drive. In 2001 he installed a new larger hard drive as master. At that time- IIRC- windows renumbered the partitions, as what used to be C, D and E on my old small hard drive, with F as the CD, became the above when the new hard drive was added. My old CD reader drive was disconnected and replaced with the CD writer. When, several months ago, I had the black screens, he looked at my lineup and said it was abnormal, as you say. So he changed it, now the CD drives are at the end. glen: What do you mean by "he renumbered them"? You current drive configuration shows that the first physical hard drive has drives C: and E:, while the second physical drive has drives D:, F;, and G: This means that you have a Primary on the first drive (C:\), and a Primary on the second drive (D. He changed the nomenclature that way. Unless you have an operating system on both those physical drives, there is really no reason to have any primary partition on the second drive....an Extended partition with Logical drives would have served just as well. I think you may mean that the tech changed the first partition on the second physical drive to a Primary, which shuffled drive letters around. Is this correct? I'm sure you're right. So it worked for months after that, as you see it. Also, I cold boot each day, so if something is wrong, it shows up. Which leads to my basic question below. If my controller lineup is basically wrong, how reasonably could both CD drives work fine for about 3 years? There is nothing wrong with the "lineup"....there is only something wrong with the fact that you are seeing the secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) in msinfo32, but not in Device Manager. I have no idea how recent this occurence is. Your description of the CD drive letter being between those of the hard drive partitions sounds erroneous. See above. It appears the tech changed the order of the drive letters by making a primary on the second physical drive....for which there really is no reason, but there is nothing "wrong" about that either. However I cannot tell for sure what was done, as I am not confident in all the info you have given regarding the past history of the drive letters. Since the tech you refer to changed this somehow, despite the fact that there were no problems, perhaps you should ask him these questions, since only he knows what he actually did, and why. The suggested changes are serious enough IMO that I will print this out and see him. But any comment on the above is appreciated. The issue of the missing controller in DM could be due to a lost BIOS setting that needs to be re-enabled, or a faulty cable, or a dead drive, or a faulty controller on the motherboard, or....... Without getting hands-on, I can not tell what is happening. Hence the suggestion to go back to the original tech and get an accurate history and have him check the components and configuration. You could simply have gotten the controller disabled somehow. Even an electrical surge can change BIOS settings. I would like to know what the tech does and what is found. I realize this is as much trouble shooting as can be done remotely. And I will post back, may be a little while and so a new thread. But please comment on the new data above, I ran for years trouble free with a oddball lineup, ??? Thanks again for your help. MS |
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I have no idea how you managed to have the drive letters in that order, with the CD
drive enumerated *before* the partitions on the second hard drive, unless some third-party drive letter assigner app was in use, or the operating system was not Win9x. Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=51978 I would like to hear the tech's explanation of how it got that way and what was done to correct it in the first place. If anyone reading this thread is still sticking it out this far along, I would be happy to hear how it is done without using a third-party utility running at boot. A mystery to me...... -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "ms" wrote in message ... Thanks again, Glen. Maybe a clue, below: glee wrote: "ms" wrote in message ... snip Before I do some (for me) drastic steps, a basic question occurs. My controller setup originally occurred when the tech set up my BIOS in 1997. The machine ran really troublefree until 2001 when he added a second CD writer and second hard drive. It ran fine for years until about 4 months ago. Until then, my W98SE was far less trouble than I see on this ng, or hear about from friends. I maybe had 3-5 BSOD a year. Starting 3 months ago, I got black screens on startup. Virus and spyware scans seldom show anything. The tech said tape over the insert key held down, may have caused the black screens. He said my lineup of partitions between 2 physical drives was wrong. I pointed out they were working like that for 3 years, he renumbered them for a "normal" lineup. The machine is fine for the last month, but then the CD drives died. The Recycle bin is OK, there's a hidden file that's the problem. When he renumbered the partitions, I don't think it would effect the controllers. With 2 physical drives, I had a C and D partition on one drive, my CD writer drive was E, the second drive had F, G and H partitions. The second CD drive was not hooked up then. He said that does not follow windows standard lineup. Except it worked fine for 3 years after he installed the CD writer drive and the partitions numbered themselves that way. He just didn't notice at the time, and since it worked, I was happy. I believe you are mis-remembering. Your CD drive could not have a drive letter between the letters of the partitions on the first drive and the second drive, at least not in Win9x. Hard drive partitions are always enumerated before optical drives....always. I am a senior with bad sleep, and my memory is not what it used to be, but I really had this lineup, copied from old system audit data: Drive letter C:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 4994 MB Free space 3425 MB Space available to caller 3425 MB Drive letter D:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 3021 MB Free space 1250 MB Space available to caller 1250 MB Drive letter E:\ Type CD-ROM Disk space usage Cannot reliably detect Drive letter F:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 1066 MB Free space 297 MB Space available to caller 297 MB Drive letter G:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 1066 MB Free space 869 MB Space available to caller 869 MB Drive letter H:\ Type Fixed drive Total space 302 MB Free space 302 MB Space available to caller 302 MB C and D were partitions on my master hard drive, F, G and H were partitions on my old (became slave) hard drive. In 2001 he installed a new larger hard drive as master. At that time- IIRC- windows renumbered the partitions, as what used to be C, D and E on my old small hard drive, with F as the CD, became the above when the new hard drive was added. My old CD reader drive was disconnected and replaced with the CD writer. When, several months ago, I had the black screens, he looked at my lineup and said it was abnormal, as you say. So he changed it, now the CD drives are at the end. glen: What do you mean by "he renumbered them"? You current drive configuration shows that the first physical hard drive has drives C: and E:, while the second physical drive has drives D:, F;, and G: This means that you have a Primary on the first drive (C:\), and a Primary on the second drive (D. He changed the nomenclature that way. Unless you have an operating system on both those physical drives, there is really no reason to have any primary partition on the second drive....an Extended partition with Logical drives would have served just as well. I think you may mean that the tech changed the first partition on the second physical drive to a Primary, which shuffled drive letters around. Is this correct? I'm sure you're right. So it worked for months after that, as you see it. Also, I cold boot each day, so if something is wrong, it shows up. Which leads to my basic question below. If my controller lineup is basically wrong, how reasonably could both CD drives work fine for about 3 years? There is nothing wrong with the "lineup"....there is only something wrong with the fact that you are seeing the secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) in msinfo32, but not in Device Manager. I have no idea how recent this occurence is. Your description of the CD drive letter being between those of the hard drive partitions sounds erroneous. See above. It appears the tech changed the order of the drive letters by making a primary on the second physical drive....for which there really is no reason, but there is nothing "wrong" about that either. However I cannot tell for sure what was done, as I am not confident in all the info you have given regarding the past history of the drive letters. Since the tech you refer to changed this somehow, despite the fact that there were no problems, perhaps you should ask him these questions, since only he knows what he actually did, and why. The suggested changes are serious enough IMO that I will print this out and see him. But any comment on the above is appreciated. The issue of the missing controller in DM could be due to a lost BIOS setting that needs to be re-enabled, or a faulty cable, or a dead drive, or a faulty controller on the motherboard, or....... Without getting hands-on, I can not tell what is happening. Hence the suggestion to go back to the original tech and get an accurate history and have him check the components and configuration. You could simply have gotten the controller disabled somehow. Even an electrical surge can change BIOS settings. I would like to know what the tech does and what is found. I realize this is as much trouble shooting as can be done remotely. And I will post back, may be a little while and so a new thread. But please comment on the new data above, I ran for years trouble free with a oddball lineup, ??? Thanks again for your help. MS |
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You got me, Glen - I'm lost here as well...
About the only way I can conceive of it happening is if there were multiple entries for the CD in the DM, and this process locking the drive letters somehow. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "glee" wrote in message ... If anyone reading this thread is still sticking it out this far along, I would be happy to hear how it is done without using a third-party utility running at boot. A mystery to me...... -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm |
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"glee" wrote in message
... | I have no idea how you managed to have the drive letters in that order, with the CD | drive enumerated *before* the partitions on the second hard drive, unless some | third-party drive letter assigner app was in use, or the operating system was not | Win9x. | Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters | http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=51978 | | I would like to hear the tech's explanation of how it got that way and what was done | to correct it in the first place. | | If anyone reading this thread is still sticking it out this far along, I would be | happy to hear how it is done without using a third-party utility running at boot. A | mystery to me...... I won't try it, BUT... I can think fixing the CD-ROM letter in it's Device Manager Properties, Settings tab, might do it. That & possibly making the hard drives to be "removable" in their Properties. Burn this post after you read it, which is NOW. | -- | Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ | http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm | | | "ms" wrote in message ... ....snip |
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Yeah - I thought of that, but by the time you can force the 'removability',
they've already been re-allocated drive-letters..... OTOH, fixing the CD Drive shouldn't do anything, much, as it's theoretically not allowed to occupy such a space, and the drive letter should have been re-allocated before Windows first loaded after the addition of the second drive..... What about this scenario......???? 1) Install new HD as master leaving old HD as Slave 2) Boot to old HD/Windows 3) fdisk/format new drive from Windows 4) COPY (note - copy, rather than xcopy) the files from C: to the new partition on the new drive 5) reboot and pick up the pieces with a SYS.C: In theory, enumeration should still move the CD - but would it be too confused? could be fun one to try, sometime! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "PCR" wrote in message ... I can think fixing the CD-ROM letter in it's Device Manager Properties, Settings tab, might do it. That & possibly making the hard drives to be "removable" in their Properties. Burn this post after you read it, which is NOW. |
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
... | Yeah - I thought of that, but by the time you can force the 'removability', | they've already been re-allocated drive-letters..... I don't know. Remember Blanton? Some time before he was swallowed by an alligator in Florida, I BELIEVE he said there is a very early access to the Registry during a boot to Windows. Can it be "removability" is one thing the boot is looking for, & letter assignments would be affected? | | OTOH, fixing the CD Drive shouldn't do anything, much, as it's theoretically | not allowed to occupy such a space, and the drive letter should have been | re-allocated before Windows first loaded after the addition of the second | drive..... I don't know. It might work regarding other removable drives. | | What about this scenario......???? | 1) Install new HD as master leaving old HD as Slave | 2) Boot to old HD/Windows http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=51978 Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters Hmm. Although the above article doesn't quite say so,... .......Quote.......... 3. Regardless of whether a second floppy disk drive is present, MS-DOS then assigns the drive letter C to the primary MS-DOS partition on the first physical hard disk, and then goes on to check for a second hard disk. .......EOQ............. ....whatever primary partition is boot to becomes C:\. With 2 partitions on the old HDD, now there is Cartition, Dartition, & E:CD-ROM. The one that is C:\ is the one that was boot to, or so I understand it. | 3) fdisk/format new drive from Windows I believe a reboot is necessary after the FDISK to see a partition letter. Now, normally, things would become... C:letter on old drive, a Primary partition. D:letter on old drive, if it's an Extended partition on new drive on new drive, if it has a Primary partition E:letter on old drive F:letter the CD-ROM | 4) COPY (note - copy, rather than xcopy) the files from C: to the new | partition on the new drive That wouldn't affect drive letters. | 5) reboot and pick up the pieces with a SYS.C: I don't believe that has an affect on drive letters. Although it makes the new drive bootable, it doesn't in itself cause the drive to boot. It also would have to be made the Active partition. | In theory, enumeration should still move the CD - but would it be too | confused? (It won't be any more confused than I am, anyhow.) | | | could be fun one to try, sometime! No! Burn this post after you read it! | | -- | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) | | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm | | http://tinyurl.com/6oztj | | Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's | "PCR" wrote in message | ... | I can think fixing the CD-ROM letter in it's | Device Manager Properties, Settings tab, might do it. That & possibly | making the hard drives to be "removable" in their Properties. | | Burn this post after you read it, which is NOW. | | |
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Ah - you spotted the hole in my theory! ( the need to reboot after fdisk)
Why burn a good post? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "PCR" wrote in message ... "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... | Yeah - I thought of that, but by the time you can force the 'removability', | they've already been re-allocated drive-letters..... I don't know. Remember Blanton? Some time before he was swallowed by an alligator in Florida, I BELIEVE he said there is a very early access to the Registry during a boot to Windows. Can it be "removability" is one thing the boot is looking for, & letter assignments would be affected? | | OTOH, fixing the CD Drive shouldn't do anything, much, as it's theoretically | not allowed to occupy such a space, and the drive letter should have been | re-allocated before Windows first loaded after the addition of the second | drive..... I don't know. It might work regarding other removable drives. | | What about this scenario......???? | 1) Install new HD as master leaving old HD as Slave | 2) Boot to old HD/Windows http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=51978 Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters Hmm. Although the above article doesn't quite say so,... ......Quote.......... 3. Regardless of whether a second floppy disk drive is present, MS-DOS then assigns the drive letter C to the primary MS-DOS partition on the first physical hard disk, and then goes on to check for a second hard disk. ......EOQ............. ...whatever primary partition is boot to becomes C:\. With 2 partitions on the old HDD, now there is Cartition, Dartition, & E:CD-ROM. The one that is C:\ is the one that was boot to, or so I understand it. | 3) fdisk/format new drive from Windows I believe a reboot is necessary after the FDISK to see a partition letter. Now, normally, things would become... C:letter on old drive, a Primary partition. D:letter on old drive, if it's an Extended partition on new drive on new drive, if it has a Primary partition E:letter on old drive F:letter the CD-ROM | 4) COPY (note - copy, rather than xcopy) the files from C: to the new | partition on the new drive That wouldn't affect drive letters. | 5) reboot and pick up the pieces with a SYS.C: I don't believe that has an affect on drive letters. Although it makes the new drive bootable, it doesn't in itself cause the drive to boot. It also would have to be made the Active partition. | In theory, enumeration should still move the CD - but would it be too | confused? (It won't be any more confused than I am, anyhow.) | | | could be fun one to try, sometime! No! Burn this post after you read it! | | -- | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) | | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm | | http://tinyurl.com/6oztj | | Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's | "PCR" wrote in message | ... | I can think fixing the CD-ROM letter in it's | Device Manager Properties, Settings tab, might do it. That & possibly | making the hard drives to be "removable" in their Properties. | | Burn this post after you read it, which is NOW. | | |
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HP 8200 CDWriter and Mitsumi CD drive in W98SE I don't use the writer drive very often, but it usually makes data CD's with few coasters. Last time, I was making backup data CD's, made several fine. I reboot before each try, much better success. The next new Imation blank CD became a coaster. I rebooted and tried again, same result. Then the next time I inserted a CD and clicked on the CD drive in Explorer, I got a "drive not ready" screen. From then on, that's all I get, regardless of the disk contents in the drive. My original CD Drive, a Mitsumi, normally works fine. When the HP started giving me the screens, I tried the Mitsumi and get the same screen now, so both of them seem to have started the same issue at the same time. At cold boot, the HP drive light comes on briefly as normal in the bootup process. Normally, the drive light is on continuously if a disk is present. Now, the light comes on when I open the drive door, blinks a few times after the door is closed, goes out, even with a CD present. The drives appear to be still connected as they show up in Explorer the HP lites up so it has power, both drive doors open, properties seemed normal in Device Manager. The drive is 5 years old, but has not had much use, so I believe wear is not the issue. An earlier post: quote -------- From: "PCR" Subject: No CD-ROM Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:51:15 -0500 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q237948 Troubleshoot CD-R_W http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=218617 Troubleshoot CD-ROM or DVD-ROM I guess, a first try would be... (1) Boot to Safe Mode. (Hold F5 as you boot, or hold CTRL for the Startup Menu, & select Safe Mode from that.) (2) "START, Settings, Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab". (3) Open the CD-ROM branch, by clicking it's plus sign. (4) Highlight each drive in that branch, & click "Remove". (Safe Mode may reveal the presence of a "ghost".) (5) Close up, & boot to Normal Mode. Hopefully Windows will find the correct drivers, & all will be well. --------------- end quote I went to Safe Mode, deleted the entries, rebooted, "rebuilding database" screen. In Device Manager, they still say "working properly, no drivers listed, they still do not read the CD in the tray. Advice? TIA MS Thanks to all, this thread must end until I get back from the tech. MS |
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glee wrote:
I have no idea how you managed to have the drive letters in that order, with the CD drive enumerated *before* the partitions on the second hard drive, unless some third-party drive letter assigner app was in use, or the operating system was not Win9x. Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=51978 I would like to hear the tech's explanation of how it got that way and what was done to correct it in the first place. If anyone reading this thread is still sticking it out this far along, I would be happy to hear how it is done without using a third-party utility running at boot. A mystery to me...... Glen, thanks very much for the help. I will compile a composite message for him, he is a one-man show, busy, so I may not have results for a month. Will post a new message then. The ULTIMATE irony of all this to me, including the later comments by PCR and Noel Paton, is that my old P166 ran so troublefree for so many years, and even after the odd lineup since 2001, ran fine. I will bring it to him working fine except one CD drive is dead, and I wonder how it will be when I get it back after the major rearrangement to make it normal. My PC is the last one I would think was working wierd, as I use it very conservatively. Every day is different. MS |
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