At 12:44 PM 25/06/2010, DSinc wrote:
JRS,
Thanks. I do see your point. But, for so many years I have tried to
avoid having the OS and DATA on the same partition.
Yet, I may still just do as you suggest.
ATM, I suspect either a problem in the MBR (dorked sectors,
rootkit?, whatever?), or, missing/corrupt XP boot files in the C:\
partition. I have seen fixes/repairs for both of these situations on
my XP CD's recovery console.
Investigation continues.
Worst case: I'll just kiss off the contents of D/E/F and just start
completely fresh. And, then do all the normal monkey-business I need
to do for MS to be happy!
If you don't need the contents of the other partitions, just zap the
disk and repartition. If you need the data, back it up and then zap
and repartition.
T
