spacesurfer

I don't have a solution to your problem. But I have resized partitions plenty of times using Norton PartitionMagic 8.0.5 and I have never had a problem. This is what I do to make sure it runs smoothly: 1) Run comprehensive Scandisk on all partitions that will be affected. This will eliminate any potential errors. 2) Resize partition from DOS, using DOS version. 3) Run comprehensive Scandisk to make sure everything occurs as it was supposed to. 4) Defrag all partitions affected. Question: how did your drive become corrupted? Did you run scandisk and it found errors or simply chkdsk?

Third party drivers don't work as well as your original motherboard drivers. You'll needs to download your SATA/RAID drivers from Dell website and copy the SATA/RAID drivers to a floppy and use those. I've recently bought a Maxtor SATA drive and did the same for the ASUS motherboard.

I haven't found a fix yet. The only thing that seems to work is to integrate (slipstream) 7.0.5 update to the installation of 7.0 and install the slipstreamed version. I haven't had a problem after I did this. If this problem occurred, you cannot simply uninstall and reinstall. That does not and has not solved the problem. I had to revert to a state when Acrobat was not installed.

There are no adverse effects of this, I presume? I thought there was some function from within windows that allowed you to purse those files.

Yeah those are compressed files. How did you get them? You probably ran Disk Cleanup with the option to compress old files to save space.

Does anyone know how to remove the folders that are created in your windows directory after installing windows update? I believe the folders store uninstall information. Since I'm not having any problems, I will not be uninstalling those updates and wish to remove them to free space. I searched this site but didn't find anythign. Normally, these folders are named like $NtUninstallKBXXXXX$ and so on for Windows 2000 but the naming is similar for Windows XP. Please NOW in Microsoft Windows XP section, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. See rules --Sonic