System tools problem

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out the
memory - but afterwards it was now super slow. I tried restarting again and,
after an hour's wait, I gave up and shut down. On starting up again, the
computer's speed was much better but I didn't feel things were as they
should be. I had recently created a restore point, and I decided restore to
it. Afterwards everything was now better but Windows Live Mail was now
grouping messages automatically. (I had never chosen this option.)

Thinking there might still be something wrong, I decided to buy a caddy and
blank internal HD to clone my laptop HD (prior to restoring to an earlier
point) but my computer does not detect the blank HD. What's more, I tried to
find all my drives through Accessories (System Tools), expecting to see that
old black-and-white rectangle with the drive partitions indicated, but the
feature doesn't seem to be there at all.

Can anyone suggest what problem I might have?

Thanks.

"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out the
memory - but afterwards it was now super slow. I tried restarting again and,
after an hour's wait, I gave up and shut down. On starting up again, the
computer's speed was much better but I didn't feel things were as they
should be. I had recently created a restore point, and I decided restore to
it. Afterwards everything was now better but Windows Live Mail was now
grouping messages automatically. (I had never chosen this option.)

Thinking there might still be something wrong, I decided to buy a caddy and
blank internal HD to clone my laptop HD (prior to restoring to an earlier
point) but my computer does not detect the blank HD. What's more, I tried to
find all my drives through Accessories (System Tools), expecting to see that
old black-and-white rectangle with the drive partitions indicated, but the
feature doesn't seem to be there at all.

Can anyone suggest what problem I might have?

Thanks.

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Are you looking in the right place?

Start Control Panel System & Security Admin Tools: Create & Format
hard disc partitions.

Or .....

Start Admin Tools Computer Management: Disc Management.

Or .....

Start Computer Right Click Computer folder Manage: Disc management.

That's the one you want.

jim

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:07:22 -0000, "Tim Walters"
wrote:

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out the
memory - but afterwards it was now super slow. I tried restarting again and,
after an hour's wait, I gave up and shut down. On starting up again, the
computer's speed was much better but I didn't feel things were as they
should be. I had recently created a restore point, and I decided restore to
it. Afterwards everything was now better but Windows Live Mail was now
grouping messages automatically. (I had never chosen this option.)

Thinking there might still be something wrong, I decided to buy a caddy and
blank internal HD to clone my laptop HD (prior to restoring to an earlier
point) but my computer does not detect the blank HD. What's more, I tried to
find all my drives through Accessories (System Tools), expecting to see that
old black-and-white rectangle with the drive partitions indicated, but the
feature doesn't seem to be there at all.

Can anyone suggest what problem I might have?

Thanks.

Have you created a partition, formatted, and assigned a drive letter?
In other words, have you visited "diskmgmt.msc" ?

--

Char Jackson

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:37:54 -0000, jbm wrote:
"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out the


Please mark quotes in the standard way. When you do it like the
above, it quickly becomes impossible to tell who said what.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:37:54 -0000, jbm wrote:
"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out
the


Please mark quotes in the standard way. When you do it like the
above, it quickly becomes impossible to tell who said what.

Culprit:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3502.922

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:03 -0800, relic wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:37:54 -0000, jbm wrote:
"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows 7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear out
the


Please mark quotes in the standard way. When you do it like the
above, it quickly becomes impossible to tell who said what.

Culprit:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3502.922

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:03 -0800, relic wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:37:54 -0000, jbm wrote:
"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows
7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's
up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear
out
the


Please mark quotes in the standard way. When you do it like the
above, it quickly becomes impossible to tell who said what.

Culprit:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3502.922

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

It was foisted upon them by an update. If it is that annoying to you, block
posts made by Windows Live 15.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:03:12 -0800, relic wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:03:03 -0800, relic wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:37:54 -0000, jbm wrote:
"Tim Walters" wrote in message ...

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop (dv7-3111ea) with Windows
7
Home Premium OA. My anti-virus program is Kaspersky and it's
up-to-date.
About a week ago, I restarted the computer routinely - just to clear
out
the


Please mark quotes in the standard way. When you do it like the
above, it quickly becomes impossible to tell who said what.

Culprit:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3502.922

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

It was foisted upon them by an update. If it is that annoying to you, block
posts made by Windows Live 15.

My technique is similar to what you suggest. If I can't easily untangle
the quotes from the new content, I just click on "next post" :-)

Life's too short to ...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

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If you don't like it, then don't read it.

I clearly insert a horizontal line between quoted text and my reply to
separate them. If you can't see that, then maybe you need to get a pair of
glasses.

jim

"jbm" wrote in message
...
"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

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If you don't like it, then don't read it.

I clearly insert a horizontal line between quoted text and my reply to
separate them. If you can't see that, then maybe you need to get a pair of
glasses.

You can also delete the Windows Live 2011 that the update installed and
re-install Windows Live version 14 like I (and others) have done. It's
available he

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows...live-mail.html

Your folders and settings are not deleted.

On 20 Nov 2010, "jbm" wrote in alt.windows7.general:

If you don't like it, then don't read it.

I clearly insert a horizontal line between quoted text and my
reply to separate them. If you can't see that, then maybe you need
to get a pair of glasses.

So, what do you suppose happens when someone else using WLM 2011 quotes
you? There is no differentiation between their comments and yours. All
sense of who said what will be lost. Your newsreader is certainly going
to cause mistakes, mis-attributions and misunderstandings.

Not to mention that your response is included with the previous
message's signature, which means that your response is cut off by most
newsreaders.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:50:11 -0000, jbm wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

If you don't like it, then don't read it.

I did not write the above; you did.

I clearly insert a horizontal line between quoted text and my reply to
separate them.

Nor did I write the above; you did.

So everyone else must conform to you, because you can't be bothered
to do it right? I see.

Doubtless you'll also blame Windows Live for the fact that you cant
be bothered to trim quotes either.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:50:11 -0000, jbm wrote:

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools".

Seriously, there are plenty of real newsreaders out there; there's no
excuse for using a Microsoft Live mess-maker. Or if the PP must,
then he should do manual editing to correct the errors introduced by
his chosen news software.

If you don't like it, then don't read it.

I did not write the above; you did.

I clearly insert a horizontal line between quoted text and my reply to
separate them.

Nor did I write the above; you did.

So everyone else must conform to you, because you can't be bothered
to do it right? I see.

Doubtless you'll also blame Windows Live for the fact that you can't
be bothered to trim quotes either.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:29:41 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
[duplicate article]

I apologize for the duplicate posting. I'm not sure how it happened.


--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:29:41 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
[duplicate article]

I apologize for the duplicate posting. I'm not sure how it happened.

You're using Gravity. You're bitching about someone's newsreader while you
use Gravity! Irony.