Re: Drive letters don't survive a reboot

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:37:53 +0200, "Vince C." <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote:

OK - so you have established that the secondary has nothing to do with it
- when you close down, do you see a pause where the computer tell you it
is saving your settings?]

The first time I changed it... I don't know. But now it does prompt
the "Saving your personnal settings" or something like that. It doesn't
stay very long however.


If not I should go back to the backup that you have on some external drive
somewhere in your office - maybe even the very first one, like the one I
call 'skeleton'

Erm... I have no backup since it did that trick to me a few hours after I
had finished installing W2K. In fact I was finalizing the installation
(i.e. apply fixes, check security on folders, fix the everyone/full control
on sensible folders, configure my desktop and explorer, install and
configure my favorite applications and tools, configure Apache, configure
PHP, configure my IDE, download and install add-ons, stuff like that, which
invariably take hours or days the very first time...) And after that I
changed the drive letters (just forgot to do it in the first place :( ). So
I have no backup. Yet...

Vince C.
With that much trouble, I should want to re-install the system again, complete
with SP4. Now do not connect to the internet under any circumstances until you
have SP4, a scanner like AVG and a firewall like Zone Alarm up and running. You
can of course download those while the computer is a mess.
There is one thing though - you do not seem to have had a display of the make -
up of your computer to let us know what you really have, like this:

For your information, my stats are:
Win 2000, Pentium IV 3Ghz
1 Gb memory, ADSL via Router DSL 504G
200+200 GB disks partitioned C:D:E;as 9.76GB 88.2GB,88.2GB
F: G: as 93.1,93.1 for data
320GB USB2 for Acronis Images (backups)
Borge Pedersen :-)
Perth, Australia
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