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Yes, I’ve lost the ability to see favicons (using IE favourites) and some of my favourite buttons so will probably revert to the previous version if the next update doesn’t resolve these and other issues!

V

Thanks for that. I’m sorry to hear they have problems but find it odd that they haven’t put a message for users about it on the main Avant website?

V

In case anyone else wants to do this, here’s where I found the real solution.

V

Or, if that’s really not possible, is there any way to customise the Navigation Pane options to include, say, the Junk Mail folder?

Thanks, that’s certainly one option. However, I would prefer a button which I can place on the RHS – less far for the mouse to go every time.

If only one could drag the folder shortcut on to the standard toolbar…

V

No need to respond. I found my own solution here http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/migratefromoewlm.htm.

It turned out to be easier than I thought!

V

Many thanks,

V

Fred

Many thanks for your patience! In answer to your questions and suggestions:

Voltages – yes, my main mover is CPU VCORE which varies between 1.216 and 1.376v. However several of the others fluctuate a bit, particularly +3.3v which alternates between 3.392 and 3.408 virtually every second. Stressing and visual inspection of the PSU have not indicated anything untoward.

Shop – don’t think they did anything wrong as this problem only manifested itself about 2 weeks after leaving their tender care!

Since your last post, I’ve also tried a hardware stress test using BurnIn Test but this hasn’t thrown up anything .

Consequently, after many more random reboots, I’ve now decided that perhaps the computer has wasted enough of my (and your) time and, being 5-6 years old, deserves retirement. I’ve therefore decided to treat myself to a new Windows 8 laptop. By coincidence, it is my birthday later this week!

Thanks again for all your help,

V

Have swapped the two RAM cards over and checked for loose connections everywhere but all seems OK and secure.

I haven’t got a spare PSU unfortunately. Is there are way I can prove the PSU is responsible for the problems?

I’ve also had a look at Event Viewer but there are so many entries I’m not sure what I should be looking for!

Thanks again,

V

PS Meanwhile, occasional reboots continue…

Thanks for all the suggestions, which I will follow up. By the way, moving the pc and ‘tapping it’ doesn’t trigger rebooting so I doubt there are any loose connections?

However, situation seems to be getting worse as, for the first time, today the pc has randomly rebooted itself 3 times in the last 5 hours.

Is there any programme I could be running which would create a data log at the time of such reboots to aid diagnosis?

By the way, on HWMonitor (Fred, I’m already using v 1.21) I notice the voltages are fluctuating all the time – not by a large amount (<0.1v) but nevertheless not static. Again, does this provide any clue…?

Thanks,

V

Thanks, Fred, that’s very interesting. Also, are your fans really not running (0%)?

As regards the boot hiccup – yes, when it happens, it’s always from a cold start.

V

PS I get the same temperature readings from Speedfan, although I know some users believe HWMonitor is more accurate and reliable.

As a final postscript to this story, although I have been able to access my files using Windows explorer where the X drive now appears as it did previously, when I go to Computer, Manage, Disk Management it still appears as it did in my first attached photo ie with no drive letter shown nor any right click options for the disk/drive (only one partition now, of course).

It’s not a problem (as far as I know!) but presumably is something to do with being an EISA partition?

Many thanks for your advice. I took an image using Macrium and then held my breath as I used the Minitool wizard to allocate a drive letter, which seemed to work, and then deleted the two linux partitions. So far, it appears that the result is successful and I have regained access to the Windows data files I wanted to access.

Thanks again.

It sounds like you’ve booted with the second drive disconnected? If so and everything was good then you don’t need to worry about messing up the boot manager. It would seem this information is correct regardless since there is no sign of any data consumption on the second drive, just empty partitions.
You could use diskpart from a command line but I like to see the GUI representation of the drives just as you see them in your screen cap but that also means you will probably need to remove the EISA partition from outside of Windows control (you have no options right now from Windows control so you have to take that away).

Does your Minitool partition software give you a nice graphic of each drive so you can just as easily distinguish between the two. If so you could try deleting the partitions on the second drive there.

The sure way of doing it would be to use a boot disc with a partition editor on it but I would think one of the free ones that runs in Windows could do it, at least in conjunction with a restart to apply the deletions. Just make sure you have the right drive selected for the changes, which in this case shouldn’t be a big issue since they are very different when viewed by partition allotment.

The Minitool software view is now attached. One option it offers is to allocate a drive letter to the 347GB NTFS partition (something the Windows software does not offer). Do you think it would be safe to try this – I’m just terrified of mucking up the pc’s boot up arrangements and ending up with an unusable computer again!!!?

Thanks for your help.

I know this is after the fact, but for future reference, it’s good to give a name to each hard drive:

— In My Computer, right click and choose Properties. Enter a unique name (e.g. for the C: drive, call it c-drive) and click Apply.

In this way, you’ll know which drive you’re dealing with if you aren’t in Windows.

Thanks. Good advice although until the last couple of weeks they did have names…! However, I have now renamed the one I can access.