Recent content by LordJaffa

Surly, you've made my day! The link you gave me had a (believe it or not) link to the MICROSOFT website giving instructions on how to manually alter the registry-defined drive letters. Simply found the appropriate drive letter and renamed it to be "C".. One short reboot later and everything's...

When I boot to the new installation, it says that the system partition (the one that 7 puts the windows logo next to) has the drive letter "i". I'm currently dual-booted to my XP install, and it's called the new volume "G" I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I didn't clone the...

I can get into safe mode, but again it's just creating a temporary account.. I used diskpart to try change the drive letter, but as it's registered as the boot drive it won't let me reassign the drive letter. Is there any way to override that block perchance?

Long and short of this is that I cloned an install of Windows 7 onto a larger partition, but the new partition has taken the drive letter "i" as opposed to "c", meaning that every single reference or shortcut is now obsolete, meaning that even my user account is messed up. Very silly mistake...

My current install is a year old now and I did have Daemontools installed, but uninstalling it didn't solve the problem. I may put it back on and manually deactivate the virtual drives, see if that helps. I'll run a virus scan now, see if it can spot anything.

I'm not sure how to explain this but my system isn't recognising disks properly. They will not autorun at all, the disk titles won't appear on the drive label despite being able to explore the disk fully regardless. The last and more recent problem that has occurred is that I can't use Media...

Vista forced a checkdisk on restart one time, but no bad sectors were found. I read of a fix that seems to work in most cases, so I'm going to give that a shot, but thanks for the suggestion, will report back what this method turns out. Solved it, had to delete the profile information from...

I've been given a laptop to fix running Vista (Pre SP1 it would seem). Any time the user attempts to log in, login fails with the following message: I've read that the solution is to delete the profile and create a new one, but any new profiles created hang on logon. The failed profile...

My girlfriend's laptop started acting strange the other day, the time and date would reset to 2004 every time it was switched off, it would crash after being used for about 20 minutes, and then it just wouldn't stay on long enough to reach POST. Obviously, I assumed that the CMOS battery had...

I'm working on a project in delphi that requires a fairly large number of shapes in a form. They're all identical and all change following the same set pattern (It's a series of 7-segment display items) but all change at different times. I've made a procedure to control them all separately...

I've been asked by a neighbour to put together a computer from the old parts I had from my last PC. I pieced them up andbooted up, the only problem is it doesn't like to stay that way. Generally the computer will restart itself in about 10 seconds, often less. It originally said the memory...

Thanks, I did some research, found that quite a lot of people had the same problem as me on that install, only with different hardware.. I did scan of my Windows folder, found the log for the windows repair and found it was freezing on "Enumerated" hardware which after looking at another log I...

I just received a new motherboard and processor to build up my current machine, but the problem is it won't boot. I looked on the internet and was told to use the XP repair function as a way to get around having conflicts etc from the new hardware. So I inserted the new motherboard and...

Oh no, I meant maximum.. My current machine can play the Crysis demo on lowest settings 1152x864 at a maximum rate of 20fps, dropping to about 10-15 when I tried firing etc. I'm planning on getting Crysis, UT3 and the Half-Life Orange box (I already have HL2 and Counterstrike, they fair quite...

I was given a budget for Christmas presents this year of £350, and as my current computer is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz Prescott (s478), a 6600GT (AGP) and 1GB DDR3200 RAM I thought the best thing I could spend it on is new components. As you can probably tell from my computer's specs, I've been...