TSGL: Laptops - strange reboot changes

[Tilman Brandl]

John,

hopefully others will come and offer better ideas, here's waht comes to my 
mind ...

Have you looked at your boot.ini file? From my understanding it *could* have 
been changed/overwritten (how? no idea)

Either open it in notepad from your C: drive, or from Start | Run by 
executing msconfig. Look at the boot.ini Tab there, you can even check the 
paths and anyway have a look at the contents of that file.

Under msconfig you should also check system.ini + win.ini for maybe 
*injected* elements that could cause this behavior. And of course - also 
look at what is under the systemstart (Systemstart) Tab.

Good luck
Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonpan" <jonpan at onlinehome.de>
To: "ListTSG" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:21 PM
Subject: TSGL: Laptops


> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a used HP laptop with XP SP2. I partitioned the 
> relatively small HDD into C and D with the OS on C: and installed several 
> programmes I needed to D: Now, after a while, when I re-start it boots to 
> the original XP ("take the tour") and all my changes have disappeared.
>
> A System Restore does bring everything back.
>
> Is it possible that this is caused by a weak rechargeable or the CMOS 
> battery?
> Any experiences of this or other ideas? I usually pull the mains plug when 
> I leave it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
> Od/G