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Seems to be behaving at the moment thanks, I’ll start re-introducing a few of the things I’ve inhibited via MSConfig, like monitor calibration etc.
MS Eventvwr seems happy enough except for a whole selection of error messages and warnings from round about the time I launched your fix file, so that’s only to be expected.
I keep getting “An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk6\D during a paging operation.”, but I’m pretty sure that’s narrowed down to a 1 gig USB desktop drive that I use for SyncToy backups of data (I also have second copies on a network drive).
I’ll look into seeing if AVAST can generate a raid supported boot disk, which might be the way to go, but I’m still not sure about the implications of a dual boot system.
I know Win 7/XP dual boot should work OK with a RAID 1, provided XP is loaded first onto “C” , which it obviously is. My understanding is that XP needs the software RAID drivers loading before the system gets to XP itself, but Win7 has native support.
Not really sure how all this will impact on future system recoveries, should they inevitably be needed. Certainly Ghost 14 doesn’t seem to support dual booting.
The previous time, even with a single boot XP Raid 1, I ended up recovering by,
first unplugging one RAID 1 hdd to make sure I had a second bite.
Format C and reinstall a basic windows XP SP1 without connecting to the net, using RAID drivers previously downloaded onto a floppy and selecting the F6 option during install.
Install Ghost 14
Call back a recent Ghosted “C” image from within Windows now that I could see it.
All very time consuming and slightly traumatic.
Then again I didn’t have an Ghost 14 boot CD with the relevant RAID drivers slipstreamed in.
I think I’ve now made one, but haven’t tested it yet; this will all probably be immaterial if/when I add Win7 onto “D”