Reinstall Windows

BruceY

My Main harddrive is partitioned into two drives, the C and D drives. Windows is naturaly on the C drive. Symtoms and problems have required me to blow windows away and reinstall Windows. Will I loose data on the D drive if left alone?

Your-Amish-Daddy

No, you're just formatting one partition. Why do you run two partitions on the same hard drive?

BruceY

Drive partitioned into two drives to save data on other drive if windows on C goes south. Also to shorten defrag, virous scan, cookie scan, etc times.
NEW QUESTION: now have Windows Home Edition installed. All running great except when I tell it to shut down, it behaves as an old AT computer (recall "It is now safe to turn your computer off"? Thats what it's telling me now. No changes done in cmos. How do I get it to shut down/off when I tell it to? Where do I make a change?

Your-Amish-Daddy

Ok, I won't argue with you about the perils of putting two partitions on one hard drive.

If it's acting like an old AT computer, and you didn't change the bios settings, then go in the bios, and check it anyway. Computers do strange things and vista sucks anyway.

kryyst

I seem to remember there being a reg key you need to change if your computer isn't auto shutting down. Just do a google search for the info.

BruceY

Fixed back on 5-3-07. There is setting in Windows (HOME ED) that was unchecked. Once "checked" it now shuts off like it should. Only problem is, now I cant recall or find the setting I wanted to say/show here now. When I do I'll post it.

NOTE: It may have been in the "Power Options" section of Control Panel. Choose "APM" tab. put a check in the box for "Enable Advanced Power Management"................I believe this is the setting