The new F drive is most liklely the FAT16 partition that Dell puts in onOEM installs, usually not accessible from XP shows as drive 0 in computer Manager/disk management). The folders you deleted were probably the Dell diagnostics. There have been several posts recently about its sudden appearance as a 'new' drive, usually after some problem occurred. I don't think that the reason has been identified.
You could try disabling system restore, reboot then enable it again, that should create a full snapshot first restore point.
I have windows xp home. The Mcafee uninstaller program deleted ALL of my restore points. I already tried disabling system restore, didn't work. Please HELP
before i had the recent hard drive crash , i had to use the re install when the drive started acting up. there was an option of " repair windows" ans also re install windows - try the repair option if it is available- caution it may delete internet cookies etc
when you restart i think that dell uses F2 to get into the boot settings - keep tapping F2 when restarting and this could get you to screen where you can change boot sequence - make cd rom drive first
follow instructions to save changes then reboot with re install cd in the cd drive
watch for option to repair or reinstall - choose repair - this leaves most every other thing intact
I wouldn't bother with the 2nd partition if it's not causing you any problems. In Disk Management, you can right-click on it and choose Remove/Delete. Re System Restore:
1. Disable SR (again) and reboot.
2. Check your updates for 'validity' using this MS utility. Uninstall/Reinstall if necessary.
tomwasil
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April 14th, 2004 22:00
what version of windows is on your system?
if you have windows xp - you should be able to go back to any point in time and restore to that date
click on start and in the menu click on system restore and it should give you three options
restore my computer to an earlier time - create a restore point - undo last restoration
JRosenfeld
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April 14th, 2004 23:00
The new F drive is most liklely the FAT16 partition that Dell puts in onOEM installs, usually not accessible from XP shows as drive 0 in computer Manager/disk management). The folders you deleted were probably the Dell diagnostics. There have been several posts recently about its sudden appearance as a 'new' drive, usually after some problem occurred. I don't think that the reason has been identified.
You could try disabling system restore, reboot then enable it again, that should create a full snapshot first restore point.
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April 15th, 2004 10:00
tomwasil
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April 15th, 2004 22:00
how about the windows xp home re install disk?
before i had the recent hard drive crash , i had to use the re install when the drive started acting up. there was an option of " repair windows" ans also re install windows - try the repair option if it is available- caution it may delete internet cookies etc
when you restart i think that dell uses F2 to get into the boot settings - keep tapping F2 when restarting and this could get you to screen where you can change boot sequence - make cd rom drive first
follow instructions to save changes then reboot with re install cd in the cd drive
watch for option to repair or reinstall - choose repair - this leaves most every other thing intact
worth a shot
maxd
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April 16th, 2004 15:00
I wouldn't bother with the 2nd partition if it's not causing you any problems. In Disk Management, you can right-click on it and choose Remove/Delete. Re System Restore:
1. Disable SR (again) and reboot.
2. Check your updates for 'validity' using this MS utility. Uninstall/Reinstall if necessary.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282784
3. Run this command: sfc /scannow (note space).
4. Verify you have no spyware or viruses (this should be #1).
5. Try to create a Restore point. Then after a day attempt to Revert to that RP. If successful, Undo that RP.
6. Decrease your SR space to 5%.