So for grins, I ran the Norton tool again, and again it broke the fingerprint reader. But this time it didn't break TVSU. However, TVSU cheerfully told me there were no updates required. So I uninstalled the fingerprint reader driver and let Windows rediscover it, and that fixed it.
I still had a Norton icon (ccsvchst.exe) that wanted to show in the status area (aka "tray"). Googling on that wound me up at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/how-do-i-remove-a-dead-item-from-the-select-which/5fafdb14-45f4-46d5-a3dd-f1f769599a46?auth=1 . Curiously, rebooting instead of restarting Windows Explorer did *not* work - I had to re-delete the registry keys and shoot Windows Explorer as the article suggests. Weird. Anyway, that worked. The next step was to recover that 15GB of recovery partition. Turns out Partition Magic 8 doesn't work on Windows 7 (or at least, it claims it won't; some folks claim it worked, others not so much, and I was tired of fighting with stuff). Some more Googling found http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html , which worked. The free version won't merge partitions, but it was willing to delete the recovery partition and then let me extend the main partition to fill the drive. What an odyssey! Posted in hopes it might save someone else some hassles. .phsiii _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
