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01-27-2009
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| Vista Ultimate | Accessing hard drives I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate x32. I have three hard drives. Drive-C: is the system drive; Drive-D: is My Documents and Drive-E for misc storage. When I first startup my computer, I can click on 'My Computer' icon and can access all three drives and all the information, BUT when I exit and then click on 'My Computer' icon again, all I get is a blank screen with NO listing of hard drives, CD player or DVD player. If I re-boot my system the process starts all over again. I have ran diskchk, virus/trojan scans and I get a clean bill of health. Any help would be appreciated. |
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01-28-2009
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| | Re: Accessing hard drives "My Computer" and "My Documents" are Windows XP things. Vista does not have them. Did you create them? Tyro "RwsRichard" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:3b01ce5d6a9de34795b133c84f1b12f7@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate x32. I have three hard > drives. Drive-C: is the system drive; Drive-D: is My Documents and > Drive-E for misc storage. > > When I first startup my computer, I can click on 'My Computer' icon and > can access all three drives and all the information, BUT when I exit and > then click on 'My Computer' icon again, all I get is a blank screen with > NO listing of hard drives, CD player or DVD player. > > If I re-boot my system the process starts all over again. > > I have ran diskchk, virus/trojan scans and I get a clean bill of > health. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > -- > RwsRichard |
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01-28-2009
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| | Re: Accessing hard drives "Tyro" <Tyro@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:PGRfl.11931$D32.7397@xxxxxx Quote: > "My Computer" and "My Documents" are Windows XP things. Vista does not > have them. Did you create them? > > "My Computer") but they are junction points (i.e. symbolic links) in order for legacy applications to function correctly. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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01-28-2009
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| Vista Ultimate | Re: Accessing hard drives  Quote: Originally Posted by Gordon  "Tyro" <Tyro@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:PGRfl.11931$D32.7397@xxxxxx Quote: > "My Computer" and "My Documents" are Windows XP things. Vista does not > have them. Did you create them? > > "My Computer") but they are junction points (i.e. symbolic links) in order for legacy applications to function correctly. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) MY fault. It is 'computer' icon and INSTEAD of having a drive labeled 'documents', I re-labeled it 'MY DOCUMENTS'. OS according to control panel -> system is Windows Vista Ultimate w/service pack 1. There are NO error messages. |
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