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this is very confusing so good luck in understanding this.
Last year I installed a second hard drive. When I did this, I copied
everything from the old to the new. I still used the old as the main drive.
The new had everything on it even windows XP. A few days ago the old one
died. I opened the case and pulled the old on out. Turned the computer back
on so the new drive would took over and it worked. Once it booted up, it
downloaded a bunch of updates from Microsoft. Everything was going great
until I tried to download new drivers for my video card. I tried to save the
driver to my desk top. I had the screen with the little globe and the paper
flying through the air. Everything looked great until the download was
finish. Once the green meter made it all the away across indicating the
download was complete, nothing happened. No window poped up (Do you want to
run this program window did not pop up). I minimized everything and looked
at my desktop and no file was there. It's like the file disappeared. I
tried downloading it to different folders, same thing happened. Tried to
just run it instead of saving it, once the download was complete nothing
would happen.
I installed a game next, tried to update it with a patch and the same thing
happened. It looks like the program installs but it does not. I get no
error msgs.
I even tried to install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, didn't work.
It's like something is missing or I have an unknown block on.
I have a Gateway computer and tried the recovery disk to see if that would
help. Still get the same result.
Last year I installed a second hard drive. When I did this, I copied
everything from the old to the new. I still used the old as the main drive.
The new had everything on it even windows XP. A few days ago the old one
died. I opened the case and pulled the old on out. Turned the computer back
on so the new drive would took over and it worked. Once it booted up, it
downloaded a bunch of updates from Microsoft. Everything was going great
until I tried to download new drivers for my video card. I tried to save the
driver to my desk top. I had the screen with the little globe and the paper
flying through the air. Everything looked great until the download was
finish. Once the green meter made it all the away across indicating the
download was complete, nothing happened. No window poped up (Do you want to
run this program window did not pop up). I minimized everything and looked
at my desktop and no file was there. It's like the file disappeared. I
tried downloading it to different folders, same thing happened. Tried to
just run it instead of saving it, once the download was complete nothing
would happen.
I installed a game next, tried to update it with a patch and the same thing
happened. It looks like the program installs but it does not. I get no
error msgs.
I even tried to install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, didn't work.
It's like something is missing or I have an unknown block on.
I have a Gateway computer and tried the recovery disk to see if that would
help. Still get the same result.