I am pleased to report.....the problem seems to be solved! ;D Generally, I followed richfocker's approach. After doing an Acronis TI backup...
This morning I made a new Acronis image and then removed Zone Alarm from my computer following the Guus abc instructions on the URL above. It did...
Richfocker. Please check my private message. DickJ
Fascinating! Zone Alarm was one of my very early suspects, but I never did try uninstalling it (I used to have problems between it and Norton)....
I have had good solid suggestions to try from a number of computer experts, but nothing I have been able to try so far has solved the problem. As...
The 2/14 image seemed fine with no trouble accessing ATI or ADD. So I decided to try to delete the few items in my J (TEST) partition prior to...
Thanks again, MudCrab! Last night I decided that you had probably pinpointed the source of my problem as messed up Registry entries. I decided...
Thanks, MudCrab. It looks like you may have found the souce of my troubles, but I'm not really sure I want to try to "fix" the Registry. I'm a...
MudCrab, I've been down a bit, so have not been working on this. I just opened (and saved) the Registry and took a look at the "Mounted Devices"....
Yes, using either Disk Mgmnt or Disk Director to create a new partition causes the delay problems. I have been advised that I may have caused...
Since Feb. 22nd I have tried a number of solutions to adding one partiton, including using Disk Management from Safe Mode, and rebooting to the...
This AM I put my modem in Standby, shut off AVG and Zone Alarm and used END-IT-ALL to close other things. I went to Disk Management and tried to...
Good news. Solved! Back to normal. Will post more after lunch!
MudCrab, thank you again. I decided to try deleting the new partitions one-by-one, using MS Disk Management. On the second hard drive I easily...
MudCrab, thank you for taking a look. No I haven't yet tried disconnecting a hard drive. I'm a senior, been sick for a while and my wife is down...
Thank you for your comments. The "PARTITION TABLE (MBA) - Changed" is listed in the AVG Virus scan Test Results for each partition, though the...
Dell desktop - WINXP SP2-two hard drives. On the first, after C and F(DATA), I repartitioned and changed drive letters, and did the same on the...
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