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You mean System Restore points? If so, this is Windows! Forget about it! You MIGHT have luck by copying over the System Volume Information folder for a drive to somewhere else as a backup and copying it back over. But, I would highly doubt it would work. You'd have to do it outside Windows or disable the monitoring on that drive, do the copy, and re-enable it, which would probably just overwrite what you just copied. Thus, defeating the purpose. But, that's Big Bill for you.

Is there a way to turn off Java/JavaScript for an individual page? Or for a temporary basis? Such as loading a page, turning it off, then back on? Like maybe with a "command line" in the Address field? And, I realize it may differ from browser to browser. Otherwise, now, it seems the only way to do it is to go into options and do it manually. Firefox is apparently getting buggier with new releases, and, the last update has produced a lot of pages where scripts become unresponsive. (The ' opening the Find introduced two or three revisions ago is still there and widely documented.) For sites where you're uploading something, this can just kill the transfer entirely.

Yeah, tried that one already. Changed both to Y and Z. Both changed to Y and Z. On reboot, though, only the 2nd drive retained its letter, Z. The first changed back to H.

Plus, if they let it slip, then, the emperor would be seen as being sans the clothes that he really is.

I never claimed I wasn't. After all, with problems like this one just the tip of my iceberg, I must be mad in that I'm still around!

Ah, it's definitely a fucker error. It is either caused by a bad application installation or a usual "Reboot Windows And It Stops Working" error. I swapped around the IDE cables for the two drives and got the same problem. The first drive, the Sony, will not accept the new drive letter. So, I swapped the cables around back to their normal position, and, got what I expected, the same problem. I took out the Sony drive and inserted the LiteOn in its place... and got the COMPLETELY unexpected result of... now... the 2ND drive, the NEC, has inherited the fucking problem! This means there is a Registry error somewhere, and, that means either an application installation or an ReWAIStW Error caused the problem. Either one, they all fall under the category of fucker error. Yep, typical Big Bill fucker error. So, the only fix is to restore down to a backup and following the INSTALL.TXT instructions from that step on. At each installation, test the drive letter changes each time, reboot, and see if it isolates a culprit install.

Nope! Renaming that key didn't do diddly, as I expected. It would only be effective on reboot... which is what is CAUSING the problem. Well, in the meantime, might as well do some more shit to waste my time. But, I can at least counter anyone who suggests it by saying I tried that. First, I'll swap around the IDE cables from drive 1's to drive 2 and vice versa. That will rule out the controller or the cables, since if either is the problem there, then, the 2nd drive will become the one that won't keep its drive letter. If the problem persists, as it most likely, will, then, I replace the 1st drive and see if it persists. Since that requires the MOST work at hand, I will end up most likely having to do that. I will put in the drive that had been in there before on this setup to minimize the possibility of introducing new elements into this already chaotic system.

No, it's nothing that easy. Never fucking is. What is happening is the first (I had said second. Turns out it's the first DVD drive that keeps getting the letter change.) DVD drive is getting its drive letter changed by something on Windows start. Why it and not the 2nd one, too, is the mystery. Anyway, the SATA internal HD gets assigned its drive letters first, but, the first DVD drive then shoves its ass out of line and steals the next free drive letter, which WAS and should be going to H:, instead of its assigned drive letter of R: Which it had been taking just fine until now. And, if the drive letter is changed to R: in Windows, it will stay as R: until reboot. Then, the 2nd DVD drive keeps its old drive letter, S: which it should be and which the first one should be doing, like it had been. Well, since H: is hijacked, the partition on the first USB HD that would normally get it must take the last free drive letter after all the rest of the 2 USB HD partitions get theirs AND R: gets its. So, drive letters are getting shuffled around when they used to not to. All because that fucker has decided to shove ahead of the line. And, I need some way to change this because Windows has made some change to itself, or some application changed it, that turned on some stupid ability to do this. A typical error I see all the time, that can only be fixed by restoring a drive image. BUT, my newest one that doesn't do this is from January 1st! FUCKERS! Problem has nothing to do with invisible partitions, etc. It's the DVD drive that is shuffling the letters around now when it hadn't anymore. No multiple Primaries, etc. Just the C: Primary booting partition and the Extended Logical partition to contain the Logical Extended drives.

Well, YOU'VE probably never had them. As I would guess anyone else who has had the luck to cross my path has probably never had them either. Of course, these are also people who, for those reasons, have had lives worth living, too. #39;(

... actually, it appears to have been easier than I realized. For once. Doesn't do me much good, though, as the KB article says you must reboot. I'll test it, though, on the incredibly off change it works. I'm not an idiot. Disk Management is the only way I know of to change the drive letters for CD/DVD drives easily. Partition Magic and Disk Director only work on hard disk partitions. Anyway, yes, it is with Disk Management that I have changed the DVD drive letter with. But, on reboot, Windows resets the drive letter for that DVD drive to the first free drive letter after assigning the drive letters to the partitions on the SATA internal drive. Since that drive contains the booting partition.

Oh, yes, I WILL lose info with NTFS! I absolutely hate it! People keep getting sucked into it for its perceived security, etc. BUT, if you have a problem with the drive, that's it, you're screwed! Nothing outside of Windows can properly access them. I can't recall the number of times I've copied a file to an NTFS partition only to try and get it later and it says it cannot access it. And the times restoring down Drive Images, etc. and the files cannot be accessed because the descriptors or whatnot that mapped to the security features weren't there. The Recovery Console has NEVER booted for me. In the 5 years of XP's existence, on 4 different tested machines with their default setups, it always asks me for my admin account and password and claims the password is wrong or the account doesn't exist. And, without the account existing, I can't log into the Recovery Console, which appears to be the only way to access the drives that are NTFS. So, why fucking jump through hoops for what doesn't work right in the first place? Nope, my first step in any XP install is to convert the NTFS partition to FAT. It's worked fine for me for 5 years. No reason to move over yet, so, I'm gonna stick with what works.

What would it be under? In general? i.e. is it a drive option, etc.

As for Disk Management, I tested the problem with the external drives powered off, and, it still happened. This reduced the display space to a point where I can get a screen capture. It seems my old haunt for posting up images last time isn't doing that anymore. Oh, well, let's try another. All the data is there except for the left hand panel. It appears as if it is cut off on the right side, but, it is not. I don't see what you can get from this data that I haven't but, any help is welcome.

Well, ya kind of caught me in a faux pas. I forgot that sometimes spider do have less than 8 eyes. They have anywhere between 2 to 4 pairs. I suppose any cave spiders might even have no eyes, like those kind of fish that live specifically in bodies of water where no light gets in. Such as caves. But, none have more than 8.

What precisely are you looking for? Because, I really can't get a screen shot that has everything. All that will be returned on all drives is the bottom pane, with the bar representations of the drives. The top pane cannot be resized to a size that does not obscure part of the bottom pane. So, one or the other can be shown at one time. Which/what do you want to know?

I created the ultimate, unpardonable sin. First, I woke up alive, and, then, I made the stupid mistake of sitting down in front of my desk. Honestly, no, I've done nothing like that at all.

AH! Well, HERE'S one of the goddamn problems... one of the DVD drives REFUSES to keep its changed drive letter! FUCKERS! It always reverts back to the first free drive letter after it's changed. The first DVD drive DOESN'T! Only the 2nd. Normally, the drives are supposed to be R: and S:. The first STAYS as R:. The 2nd is going back to the first free drive letter on each Windows start. So, how can I stop this? Also, anyone know where in the Registry, etc. the keys, etc. that store the drive letter information are? I know they won't be of much use here, if any, but, I'm curious where this information is stored in Windows.

I got... All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. Granted, it was a movie only disc, made specifically for Pizza Hut, with a starting ad video stream before the main menu. Which only has two menu options. Start movie and choose Espanol. But... I didn't have to deal with that for too long...

First off, I think I can safely say this, but, not go any further because of lots of stuff that is too complicated. Before you go any further, be aware that this foreign DVD may not play on your US TV at all, regardless of the region coding. If the video format is PAL, the video will not play right unless your player or TV can support PAL. Most in the US support NTSC. PAL on the wrong format TV will result in any of the following or combinations of them: 1.) black and white video 2.) the video is not centered on the screen 3.) a high pitched whine interferes with the audio because of the number of lines being displayed is greater 4.) the video scrolls on the screen like the TV's vertical hold has been tampered with. The video on these DVD's will play fine on a PC because PAL versus NTSC doesn't matter to a PC monitor.

Despite that HELPFUL answer the answer lies in Windows, naturally. Something occurs at Windows start, either something Windows is doing or something it is running, i.e. something else is doing it because it is telling Windows to do it. Because, when the drives are unhidden and Windows is restarted, booting from a CD into DOS shows the drive is present. Restarting and booting into Windows immediately there after hides the drive.

Anyone care to try and tackle this latest issue that STILL makes no fucking sense? For some reason, I have one partition that NEVER unhides. HOWEVER, it's NEVER the same partition AND it's a partition that HAS been visible for YEARS! I first discovered it just before the end of last month. I had a partition where IF Windows Explorer was open to the root directory of the drive and Windows was set to reopen all instances of WE that had been open on the last Windows shutdown, then, the drive would mysterious go Hidden. BUT, it could simply be unhidden by Partition Magic or Disk Director. BUT, if the above process was repeated, it would happen every single time. Now, I've backed up the live system described above and have been working from a restore factory default partition since the 2nd of this month trying to debug it down. I hadn't noticed the problem repeating... BECAUSE IT CHANGED TO A DIFFERENT FUCKING DRIVE! BUT, of course, NOT the same symptoms. A different partition on the same hard drive, an internal SATA, now just WON'T unhide at all! PM and DD say it is not hidden, but, Windows NEVER detects the drive. When Windows is restarted, the status of the drive returns to Hidden. TweakUI has not been set to not display this drive, just returns a ? for the drive. And don't give me the run Scandisk and whatever shit. I've already run all that, virus scanners, spyware scanners. AND DOS utilities, too. I already knew that would return fucking nothing. So, who's got the balls to step to the plate and come up with nothing?

Well, it depends. There are basically 3 modes, apparently. 1.) if you're willing to pay for everything 2.) IF your hardware supports it and you have qualified #1 3.) a mode sans 1 and 2. It appears to be like 1 GB of RAM... and the will of God to get it to work. Posted before I was done. I had meant to go on at the above point by saying that depending on if your graphics card, processor, and amount of RAM support it, some of the "features," which are the usual cosmetic changes MS throws in to MAKE you think it has been improved simply by looking better, won't be supported. Which, of course, as we all know, these new cosmetic changes cause Windows to run slower and usually never work right, resulting in crashes of Windows Explorer. The earlier proposed big change, some kind of new file system that basically said they were able to get any file made by an application on any computer on any file system, regardless, could be read on Vista. Yeah, right. Anyway, it won't be in there, and, IMO, that's for the better. Can you IMAGINE the sheer number of security holes such a concept would introduce?

I saved money once by getting a DVD I wanted free with a Pizza Hut pizza.

Most likely, they mean the supply of available beta testing slots. Because, you have to understand how commercial beta testing is done. The number of testers is always limited because they need the number of samples in the set controlled. If the number varies or is never capped, then, people who, basically, cannot be monitored, controlled, selected for specific traits, etc. are allowed into the sample set. In other words, a REAL world return of user experiences would occur, as opposed to the ones the commercial software developer wants.

Well, maybe it depends on WHAT you're smoking that makes you see spiders you can't touch because they aren't there.