Recent content by radiodale

I often leave the computer running while I am out of the room. In order to solve another problem, I have just done a clean install. New problem is: When I return and hit a key to turn the monitor back on, the task bar (the entire line at the bottom of the screen) is gone. Without this I cannot...

DVD drive was disconnected with no improvement. Another DVD drive was substituted with no improvement. I have a new hard drive on order. Since my Win 7 copy was an upgrade I will have to load an old copy of XP first and then Win 7. I hope this works. What a pain...

No problems after installing Win 7 over Vista. It has been running for months without a problem. Yesterday it did indicate a driver problem but whenever I selected one to load (from Win 7 disc) it said it couldn't find the selected driver. Does this mean that the DVD drive is defective? I chose...

Thinking back, another reason for attempting to restore was that when I clicked on "computer", instead of it instantly showing all drives the green bar moved very slowly across the address bar before the drives were listed. Total drives were C, E (DVD), F (Seagate). No digital rights issues. I...

Seagate USB (auto backup drive) has been disconnected for several days. I was backing up my photos and documents by copying them from the C drive to the DVD (internal) burner. Startup repair choice could not find a problem. Restore option reports that there are no restore points avalable as I...

Safe mode produces the same result, only the cursor is larger. Restore was performed since I could not access any files on my Seagate external backup disk. I had just finished backing up my photos and documents (3 DVDs total) when this problem occurred. After I performed the restore a message...

I did a successful restore to a previous date but when the computer was turned on after the restore it would not boot. I cannot get beyond the "starting Windows." Tried repair but no problems were found. Dale