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Hard Drive Label Problem
Hi. I'm seeking help with an elusive problem that has bugged me for some time now. No matter what I name ("label") my C: drive, everytime I restore my registry it gets capitalized. Never used to do this until after installing the Intel App Accelerator. Uninstalling the update has had no effect. Replacing every file it touched with the system originals has had no effect. Of course I had made a registry backup before the install and restoring that registry has had no effect. I used InCtrl5 to monitor the install and checked to see that everything Intel did was reversed. It actually touches very little. So I rename the drive again. Just caps and small letters (ie. Local Disk). Looking at the registry key
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Mount Points\C (for the "C" drive) shows that what I have renamed it is there ("LabelFromReg" subkey). I save the registry with Registry Checker and reboot into DOS and use the Windows\Command\scanreg way to restore the registry (that I just made with the new name) and reboot. When boot is complete I open My Computer and there is the name (Label) re-capitalized again. I go into the registry editor again and look at the above mentioned key but now it is all zeroed out. Using the "run" method (scanreg /restore) produces the same result. It's annoying. Seems like during boot something is intercepting the label from the registry and using the volume name from the hard drive (sector 0 volume name). I have tried replacing the iosubsys files that I think might be involved at boot with their original counterparts (assuming that one might have become corrupt) but that does nothing either. This problem only happens when I restore the registry. Otherwise, it remains unchanged from each shutdown to the next startup. I have thought of every possibility I can (and tried them) yet.....????? Anybody have an idea that I haven't thought of? Thanks in advance. |
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NTFS partitions allow lowercase names, FAT 32 does allow only CAPITALIZED names.
Your partitions FAT 32? |
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Hi Murf. Thanks for your reply. All drives on my system are FAT32. I have 4 and there is an opersting system on 3 of them. Specifically 98/ME/XP. When you click on My Computer, Windows Explorer comes up and the first thing you see are all the drives attached to the system... an icon with the drive name below it. They have always been as such: "A: Floppy Disk, C: Local Disk, D: Local Disk", etc. And that's what I'm talking about. 98 and XP show it this way and so did ME until I installed and then uninstalled the Intel Application Accelerator update. Everytime I restore the registry when I'm in ME, "C: Local Disk" gets changed to "C: LOCAL DISK" even though I have put back everything the way it was before the install. I tried the same Intel update in 98 to see if I could catch something I missed when I was doing it in ME but saw nothing unusual and when I uninstalled it from 98 everything went back to normal in 98 and I am not getting the same problem there...kinda wierd! The Intel update program probably does something a little different on ME than 98 since ME has some very different system files than 98. In fact, this update is for the Intel 810/815 chipset so it is designed to be used on any of the operating systems I have including XP. Guess I could run it again in ME and see if maybe there was something I missed. Since 98 and XP are not doing the same thing I'm guessing that the Intel update doesn't do anything sneeky like flash some new values into the BIOS rom as that would affect all drives on the system. Back to the drawing board I guess.
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Hi Murf. Thanks for your reply. All drives on my system are FAT32. I have 4 and there is an opersting system on 3 of them. Specifically 98/ME/XP. When you click on My Computer, Windows Explorer comes up and the first thing you see are all the drives attached to the system... an icon with the drive name below it. They have always been as such: "A: Floppy Disk, C: Local Disk, D: Local Disk", etc. And that's what I'm talking about. 98 and XP show it this way and so did ME until I installed and then uninstalled the Intel Application Accelerator update. Everytime I restore the registry when I'm in ME, "C: Local Disk" gets changed to "C: LOCAL DISK" even though I have put back everything the way it was before the install. I tried the same Intel update in 98 to see if I could catch something I missed when I was doing it in ME but saw nothing unusual and when I uninstalled it from 98 everything went back to normal in 98 and I am not getting the same problem there...kinda wierd! The Intel update program probably does something a little different on ME than 98 since ME has some very different system files than 98. In fact, this update is for the Intel 810/815 chipset so it is designed to be used on any of the operating systems I have including XP. Guess I could run it again in ME and see if maybe there was something I missed. Since 98 and XP are not doing the same thing I'm guessing that the Intel update doesn't do anything sneeky like flash some new values into the BIOS rom as that would affect all drives on the system. Back to the drawing board I guess.
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Hi buddy.....
Yea I just checked on my computer (98se) and C drive is listed as "Local Disk" (For type) Try this: Goto MY COMPUTER then right click 'C' and choose properties and see if you can set the label there.... (And it stays correctly) Good luck buddy! |
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Thanks for the advice. I'll try that. Did have something different happen over the weekend. Both C: drive and E: drive got capitalized right in front of my face and without restoring the registry. So I'm thinking that the restore is not the problem but that it may be the file (.exe or .dll) that is responsible for monitoring the registry. Either that or maybe something in the way Norton Utilities 2001 works. Have had some wierd things happen from time to time with it. When I first bought it in 2001 I went to the update sight and there was an update for it. But now when I go it says I don't need any update even though I uninstalled it and re-installed it just in case something got corrupted. HA! No update indeed! I think they just took everything off their system for the older versions and just tell you that to get rid of you. Thank you Symantec. The investigation continues.
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Yes it can be a bother for sure!!
Im glad your sticking with ME,i know a few ppl who have NO PROBLEMS with it....... Do you remember what update you installed before this one that messed things up?? (A file might have been changed in which case re-installing THE LAST UPDATE might correct it) You do have SFC on there right? (System file checker) You should run that and that will tell you what files have been changed and will give you the option to restore the prev. version of it... |
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No please,we have been kinda slow here on CTH lately.... Getting long replies like yours is good!!
I do have a firewall and im glad I do as last week I had an attempt to list all files on my computer!! (The attempt was blocked by my firewall) I was going to a site I usually goto and it was quite slow,not responding,etc.......... I finally checked my firewall and It had several INTERNAL ERRORS listed in the log and 1 blocked event from the domain I was trying to load....... I think whatever tried to load FROM THIS DOMAIN put my firewall thru hell!! (Crashed it a few times but thankfully DID NOT GET THRU!! (The program re-starts automatically when it crashes thankfully (Or its supposed to))) The Event was: HTTP NETSCAPE DIRECTORIES (I think) and its an attempt to get the file list on the computer its attacking to be sent to it..... Here is details http://www.iss.net/security_center/r...irectories.htm I dont know what could have happend if I didnt have my firewall running!! Last edited by The Dude; April 9th, 2014 at 12:18 AM. |
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. Glad to hear your firewall did it's job. Never had anything happen myself. Just lucky I guess. It's also why I keep all my personal and non-OS stuff on the 4th drive. The other 3 only have the operating systems on them. Anyway, I Googled for a Windows Explorer update yesterday but nothing came up so I guess I was wrong about that. The label problem is also happening at other times too so it's not related to the restore. You may be wondering why I restore my registry so frequently. I do this as a safety precaution after I've been on the internet. By keeping a clean copy of it any sneeky stuff put in it by whoever or whatever gets wiped out. I'm still thinking the same thing you said about the updates I did. They were done many years ago and I've lived with the label problem for a long time now. Just thought it was time to try and solve it. It may be a strange reaction between all those updates. And one other thing occurred to me. It might have been right around the same time that I installed a RAID controller card so I could use those extra drives I got. I wonder if there is a strange reaction with that too. ME has some very unique features compared to previous Windows versions. While looking for answers to my label problem I ran across an article that talked about how ME was actually a testing ground for W2K and XP. That explains why I have seen many W2K/NT/XP dll's, vxd's, etc on my system. When you right click on a file like a dll or vxd and select properties and then look at the version tab and click on the Product Version line you see the operating system it was meant for. There is also one funny thing I have noticed in 98SE. I have 2 DVD burning rom drives in the system and they are both the same model and manufacturer. Yet when I bring up Device Manager in 98 and expand the CD Rom folder it only shows 1 DVD rom drive attached to the system but Explorer shows 2 and both are accessible seperately. And it does show all 4 hard drives even though 3 of them are the exact same model and manufacturer. Kinda strange. Probably just a bug in 98. Oh, I did find one other thing yesterday too. Part of what I noticed about the label problem was that every time it happens the desktop refreshes, a new desktop.htt file is created in \Windows\Application Data\Internet Explorer and my registry jumps up in size about 60K so I wondered if maybe it was related to the Control Panel - Display option. I looked at my DESK.CPL file properties and noticed there was no version tab. Not all files have a version tab but most do and in the past I have noticed that when they don't (and they should) they are corrupt. I pulled out my original system disc and was right. The file should have been 217K but was only 95K so I replaced it. Wasn't the problem though. Wonder how Display worked with so much of it missing? Anyway, I'm going to keep investigating and re-run those updates one-at-a-time and see what happens.
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Ya That IS a good idea!!!!
Would be nice if you could get the computer to use THE SAME REGISTRY everyday! (Everyday @ boot it backups the reg so then there are 2 cabs saved (then 3,4,5)) I have it set to 5... I notice sometimes the cab files become unrestorable for some reason.... Like if i click the 3rd,4th or 5th cab files sometimes (from days ago) and try to restore it,it says "UNABLE TO RESTORE" -- I dont know why........ 1 time I had some issues so I marked one of the cab files READ ONLY hoping it would not be changed! (The contents in it) and for a month I had that saved cab file in there (Since it was marked "read only" it wasnt auto deleted) -- A month later I went to restore it AND IT WORKED!!!!! (So my idea of making it READ ONLY kept it from being ruined) Very strange for sure!!!!! (Why are they sometimes compromised if not marked READ ONLY??) |
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Yeah that would be nice. Maybe it could be done by saving the SYSTEM.DAT, USER.DAT and CLASSES.DAT files (SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT in 98), after they have been restored, to the Windows\Sysbckup folder and then use a couple lines like this in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
COPY C:\WINDOWS\SYSBACKUP\SYSTEM.DAT C:\WINDOWS COPY C:\WINDOWS\SYSBACKUP\USER.DAT C:\WINDOWS COPY C:\WINDOWS\SYSBACKUP\CLASSES.DAT C:\WINDOWS You would probably need to use a switch after each of those lines to turn off the confirm. I might try this for fun to see if it works. The only other way would be if you put a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT like this: C:\Windows\Command\Scanreg.exe /Restore But that wouldn't work 'cause Scanreg (DOS version) always reboots after restoring the registry and you would wind up in an endless loop. And you couldn't use Scanregw because it needs Windows to run and at boot you're in DOS mode. I've seen that happen on mine too. It's pretty rare and like you I have no idea what causes that. They show up as RBBAD. Making it "Read Only" is a good idea. I'm going to do that with mine too. Maybe Windows is set up to trash the registry backup when it gets too old? Another idea would be to save an extra copy, which I also do, in another folder or on another drive if you have more than one. Even a flash drive if you have one. I learned this from the same experience as you when you go to restore the registry and find the backup is no good. Now you're in trouble. If you do backups of your hard drive it would be in there too and could be restored to the drive and then restored using Scanreg. Anyway, still working on the other problem but no success yet. |
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You would think all the saved cabs would stay re-storable until they are auto deleted though!! |
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Yeah, you'd think they would have set it up so it wouldn't shoot itself in the foot. XP, and so probably all the newer NT based OS's, do not save a copy of the registry at boot or any other time. There is one extra copy in the folder called Repair but it's from when XP was first installed and so if you ever had to restore it you'd be back at square one. You could copy the current registry over to it from time to time which would at least keep it reasonably fresh but the best way is to keep XP and the newer ones Backed-up,
Still working thru the other problem and found a couple of updates that were missing files or the versions were wrong but they were updates un-related to anything that works with the disk drives or the registry so they didn't fix that. At least those little things got taken care of. Didn't know until yesterday that qfecheck.exe did this. Try it on yours to see if all your updates are good. Qfecheck.exe is usually found in the \Windows folder. Just left click it and it will show you all the updates that you've done in detail and whether anything is missing or incorrect. I made a shortcut on my System Tools menu so I can run it whenever. Stay in touch. |
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Ya alot of interesting files for sure......
WINFILE is excellent!!! (Only program that helped me re-assign one of my associations one time (It was messed up)) |
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