vbt
Staff member
during last days I started to get malware coming to system32, they were quite hard to remove. Then I tried to apply some seurity patch, then pc return in loop to login screen. I removed patched in safe mode, the pc worked well again but USB storage was no more working(no letter assigned, media unreadable). I finally decided to install SP2 (was using SP1a). Ther was not problem to install the service pack. I reboot and got "fastfat.sys demaged" ... I restore it with the repair mode but then no login screen, tried many things(found similar problems on forums) with no success.
I reinstalled XP in new folder on same partition, all hard drive letter has changed... I used Device Manager to reassign letter, first try worked perfectly, I tried on two other partitions and after assigning letter, there was no more letter assigned with "free space". All my dev partition and tools/data partition removed!!! with no data saved before, everything lost.
I finally hacked a partition tool to restore partition info and everything is back, I reused the device manager to assign letter and it finally worked.
So SP2 is "evil" and the device manager is not a really stable tool.
I reinstalled XP in new folder on same partition, all hard drive letter has changed... I used Device Manager to reassign letter, first try worked perfectly, I tried on two other partitions and after assigning letter, there was no more letter assigned with "free space". All my dev partition and tools/data partition removed!!! with no data saved before, everything lost.
I finally hacked a partition tool to restore partition info and everything is back, I reused the device manager to assign letter and it finally worked.
So SP2 is "evil" and the device manager is not a really stable tool.