I can disconnect the partitioned drive and can boot with one drive, the one designated as C, now drive 0.. They're identical drives, so it's hard to tell them apart. I think that I reformatted to the secondary drive. Would you suggest I start over, install to the other drive?
I can boot from the C drive with the other disconnected. Everything works except Zone Alarm's antivirus is unable to kick in. I think I'll start fresh, install
the drive that was probably my boot drive to begin with.
I think that sounds like a good plan. Disconnect the other drive, then when you reinstall, make sure you delete both the Windows partition and the System reserved partition. Setup will create a new System Reserved partition and all should be good
Yes, I reformatted the "other" drive. Everything works fine. EXCEPT. The C drive has a bunch of files that shouldn't be there. They weren't formatted away. I'm online, I'm installing programs, etc. etc. I'll give you screen shots. At this point, I'm either going to leave it alone or go buy a couple fresh hard drives and install as to a new machine. Either that or format the C drive and start again. Man, I've reinstalled XP systems at least five times, and never had this kind of craziness.
Biostar TA790GX A2+ 6.0
AMD Phenom X4 9750 CPU.
4 Gig DDR2 Memory.
ATI HD 5450 PCIe Video
ATI HD 5450 PCIe Video
500 Watt P.S.
LG W2241T Widescreen 22" LCD
ViewSonic VA721 17" LCD
Envision 17" LCD
2 LG DVD Drives
Floppy Disk Drive
Maxtor 120 Gig Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
Gateway NV5378-U Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Acer Aspire V3-731 Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
I finally got this under control by clicking the format option on the corrupted drive, installed for (should have counted) maybe the twelfth time in a day. Now it looks clean and I can breathe and eat again.