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From: Jim on 14 Feb 2010 07:51
I keep an identical hard drive to my C: drive in an external tray, and
once a week do a CLONE of the C drive to restore computer after
malware, and it has saved me at least 4 times in the past. I use
Acronis backup, which has always worked perfectly for me before.

I had to do a system restore using the clone disk, but as I was very
tired at the time
think I missed a step using Acronis, and anyhow my Windows has not
been performing correctly in a few areas.

1) The SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE icon in system tray no longer lists the
hard disc drives, only USB items. My Thinkpad laptop has removable
tray with floppy, 2nd hard drive, CD Rom, and you could switch them
out after using the Safely Remove Hardware icon and disabling that
particular drive. Well, it no longer even shows the other items, even
though they are shown in Control panel Disk Management section.

And, when I first booted up after the restore, all the hardware
re-installed itself and the drivers, and it kept saying that the IDE
Controllers needed to be installed, but they could not find the
drivers. If you go to Hardware manager, all hard drives show normal,
BUT, under OTHER DEVICES two IDE controllers are shown with yellow
question marks. And, every time you boot up the Found New Hardware
wizard starts up twice, once for each non-existent controller.

The above is my main problem.

2) when you shut down the laptop, before XP would exit normally, and
shut the computer down completely. Now, you get a screen from XP
saying "you may now turn off the computer", and you have to push the
power button to turn the thing off.

I updated all drivers from the Lenovo site, but I suspect the two
extra IDE controllers are screwing things up. I tried to uninstall
them, but the wizard keeps coming back trying to install them, and can
never find the drivers no matter where I tell it to look (system
32\drivers), etc.

Would anyone have any ideas on how I can fix these problems, so I
don't have to do a complete reinstall, which would take some doing.

Jim

From: J. P. Gilliver (John) on 14 Feb 2010 09:36
In message <3arfn5l6b5vthqlvmugg0q5vq5jhkgf751(a)4ax.com>, Jim
<nospam(a)nospam.com> writes:
[]
>1) The SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE icon in system tray no longer lists the
>hard disc drives, only USB items. My Thinkpad laptop has removable
>tray with floppy, 2nd hard drive, CD Rom, and you could switch them
>out after using the Safely Remove Hardware icon and disabling that
>particular drive. Well, it no longer even shows the other items, even
>though they are shown in Control panel Disk Management section.

Is this what used to be called a docking station, usually connected via
a big connector, or does it all connect via a USB plug?
>
>And, when I first booted up after the restore, all the hardware
>re-installed itself and the drivers, and it kept saying that the IDE
>Controllers needed to be installed, but they could not find the
>drivers. If you go to Hardware manager, all hard drives show normal,
>BUT, under OTHER DEVICES two IDE controllers are shown with yellow
>question marks. And, every time you boot up the Found New Hardware
>wizard starts up twice, once for each non-existent controller.

See below [1].
>
>The above is my main problem.
>
>2) when you shut down the laptop, before XP would exit normally, and
>shut the computer down completely. Now, you get a screen from XP
>saying "you may now turn off the computer", and you have to push the
>power button to turn the thing off.

Never heard of that one! The "It is now safe to ..." screen used to
appear on machines with AT power supplies, whereas ATX could shut off;
yours can clearly be shut off since it used to. Two thoughts - 1.
something in Power Management has got changed, 2. something in the BIOS
has got changed.
>
>I updated all drivers from the Lenovo site, but I suspect the two
>extra IDE controllers are screwing things up. I tried to uninstall
>them, but the wizard keeps coming back trying to install them, and can
>never find the drivers no matter where I tell it to look (system
>32\drivers), etc.
>
>Would anyone have any ideas on how I can fix these problems, so I
>don't have to do a complete reinstall, which would take some doing.
>
>Jim
>
[1] Well, it's only a fudge not a fix as it doesn't fix the root cause,
but - assuming you can actually _see_ all your drives: setting "do not
use in this hardware profile" on the !-marked items in device manager
_might_ at least stop it from looking for drivers every boot.
--
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** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

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"How's DX?" column in "QST")
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