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Changed/Added Hard Drive and Now I have problems

Apr 16, 2005 10:06AM PDT

I changed hard drives. I had an 80 Gig and added a 160 Gig. I left the 80 Gig the master and made the 160 Gig the slave. Then, I used the Western Digital program that came with the 160, Data Lifeguard Tools(Maybe I should have used Ghost, instead!), to copy the files from the 80 to the 160. After that I switched master and slave since I wanted the 160 as the master.

I am using Norton System Works 2004 as a computer help program and have used it regularly. When I ran it after changing HD's around, it showed a lot of errors.

I can run the WinDoctor and it gives me a bunch of problem areas mostly Invalid Active X/COM Entries (100 problems). Those I can automatically repair.

But the one that worries me is: Drive Change from C to E. (177 problems) A removable drive has been inserted or removed, or, a director was moved to a new drive causing drive C to appear as drive E. These problems should not be fixed automatically.

If I can't repair them automatically, I have no idea what to do to repair them. I did notice that when I tried to optimize, it got an error message that said it failed to open and I can't open it. I don't know if its related to all those errors or not.

Also, I noticed that MS Outlook opens up but won't successfully send or receive. Also, MS Word wants to "install" and then gives and error message but then goes ahead and works.

Anyway, can you tell me what to do to help with the drive change problem?

Thank you very much.

Jerry

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(NT) (NT) Why double post?
Apr 16, 2005 7:52PM PDT
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WIth 5 or more posts on this subject by you....
Apr 17, 2005 12:13AM PDT

How do you manage to keep it together?

bob

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Apology
Apr 17, 2005 4:45AM PDT

I apologize. I wasn't getting a response so I thought I would rephrase the subject and better write the comment. And then I thought I might be in the wrong area(s) for a response. Anyway, I am not wanting to mess up my computer by doing something I shouldn't but I'm not sure what to do and it isn't letting me do emailing through Outlook (even though it opens up) right now.