Craig,
Regarding your extra copy of Windows on "D" drive. Without knowing the details it is impossible for me to tell you the cause of the problem. But the first thing I would suspect is the following. Never have two copies of an operating system visible at the same time. What can and often does happen is that the computer will get them confused and it can cause absoulute havoc to either or both operating partitions.
First if you use Windows, I highly reccomend a program called "Partition Magic"! It allows you to easily change, move, hide, resize, copy, and backup partitions and much more! If you have an extra Windows partition on you computer always keep the extra one hidden! In the event of a crash, then use the emergency disks created with PM to access the other partition and make it active and replace the bad copy of Windows.
Regarding C: drive, I keep only Windows components on it and nothing else. All my programs go on a seperate partition! That way when Windows self destructs as it will eventually do, you can replace the partition without having to re-install all of your programs. Sounds like that is what you are doing, so you are ahead of the game there.
I was gone for a long weekend, so I appologize for not answering sooner.
Steve 667 |
