Another issue with virtual drive
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Can you try and (“Repair”) windows via the recovery disk?
That way your not going down a route of formating and installing from scratch. It could be anything from Driver’s, Corrupt Windows Components such as Registry issues.Windows Repair might help, if it doesnt then even i would suggest a rebuild.
An Odd one indeed!
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Thanks for your input Sir.
The problem is that although I really like the PA implementation of virtual drives, that is the ONLY issue I have with my current setup. Also, all other virtual drive software that I have tried as replacements work flawlessly - the only common denominator is that they have drive letters pre-allocated…they appear as empty CD/DVD drives.
The issue could be down to some installed software, which I would unknowingly reinstall.
TBH, as much as I do not like computers to ‘win’, trying to fix this one by way of repairs and rebuilds just is not worth it.
Like last night - installed Fedora 17 - used to work well when first released, then had issues with some updates not taking. Tried again (last night) after a couple of months and after 2 hours of installing and updating, the sod would not boot up correctly (it did initially, but not after all the updates). problems with the free source nouveau nVidia driver. Not worth the hassle to fix either - I have 4 other Linux distros installed and OpenSuSE 12.2 is out in 5 days.
I will be happy to test any fixes that the team can come up with if this is found to be fixable.
Regards
DrT
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did you try using System Restore to the time when you think it all worked? I think it makes new restore point automatically, but you can make sure it does…
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The issue is with the automatic issue of drive letters. I found another piece of software that worked similarly to PAs and also used StarPort drivers. I have updated these drivers via windows device manager without any difference. Anybody have any ideas where the upper and lower filter keys for the PA virtual drive are in the registry or even what the drive is called (Rocket, StarPort, PowerArchiver, SPTD)? Restore points will not help, old ones gone as many installs and uninstalls have written new ones.
