Bizaarre Norton Ghost 10 problem..... disk mount points disappeare

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This is an odd one folks.

Ghost has been working fine. I have two disks and 4 partitions (2 each); a
small system partition, a large data/program storage one, and then the other
disk is a "scratch" disk for video storage.

Anyway, I've had Ghost running incrementals nightly to my network without
event.

Until recently.

About a week ago, suddenly and without any idea why, Windows "lost" the
permanent drive letter assignments! Ghost says the disks are "unmounted" and
refuses to run incrementals on them any more.

Everything on the machine is working fine, except this. If I go into the
Disk Manager (either the windows version or the DOS command-line one) and try
to look at the volumes they're all there - without letters on them.
Attempting to assign letters fails (moving one of the existing volumes WORKS,
but the letter doesn't show up in the volume manager!) What's even worse is
that I can set up a mount point but can't see it - or remove it - once I've
done so!

What the heck is going on here? I can't figure out how to get out of this
one - and there's no incrementals for me until I do!

But - open "My Computer" - the letters are THERE!

Anyone got an idea here?

Anyone know what registry key(s) control this stuff that could have gotten
scrambled?
 
Karl,

That's really strange and I don't know the answer either. What I do in these
situations is to use Ghost 10 and restore an image (baseline or incremental)
taken at a time when the computer was working normally. Because you have
been running nightly incrementals you will only have to catch up 7 to 10
days after the restore. From your partitions I see you have been keeping
your data separate from the OS so you won't lose much from the OS restore.

Ghost is so helpful in these strange situations.
 
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