"I assume that
I can delete both and then recreate them, so that I'm sure
they are new, and then look at them and see if they tell me
anything."

Yes.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
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Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:
William, try looking for ntbtlog.txt in the Windows folder.

NOTE: when you view this you may see some failures or failed to open even
on the bootable drive. These are usually network related things that
ordinarily cannot be accessed during bootup but are sometimes called by
the system when activating a service or checking a device, hence, they
result in "load failures."

Thank you, Michael. I couldn't have guessed that that would
be what the log is stored as. But I find such a file on the
bootable drive and on the non-bootable drive. I assume that
I can delete both and then recreate them, so that I'm sure
they are new, and then look at them and see if they tell me
anything. If you care to look at one, I've stored the bad
one on my website as

http://bellsouthpwp.net/billurie/b/i/ntbtlog.txt

but it is *very* lengthy....about 870KB. It starts out
with several dozen successful calls, followed by pages of
unsuccessful one. Perhaps you'd care to give it a quick
glance and tell me if you think it's likely to be fruitful.
Bill L.