Ross said:
In My Computer, when I highlight drives C:, D:, E:, or F:, then either
right-click or click on File, I get the hourglass, then "This program is
not
responding." So, I cannot look at Properties, etc, for any of these
drives.
The printer driver menu, however, works fine.
Computer is a new laptop.
Please help me avoid the recovery disk.
If it's new the manufacturer may have some insight as to this odd behavior,
unless you've been doing a lot of peculiar customizing. Unless you're trying
to describe something that isn't coming across very well.
Not sure what you mean by the "printer driver menu." You seem to be
confusing the meaning of "drive" as in hard drive, floppy drive, etc. with
the meaning of "driver" as in the software that runs a piece of hardware. I
can't think of any menu that lists printer drivers (although you can access
driver information), and there's no such thing as a printer *drive* so this
is quite confusing and I'm not sure how this is related to an issue with
your hard drive. And there aren't drivers for hard drives, so there's no
driver menu there for sure.
Considering you said this was a laptop -- have you been customizing your
partitions somehow? Most of the new ones I see have one optical drive -- cd
or dvd and one partition on the hard drive that's visible and maybe one
hidden partition. So C and D are normal, and sometimes there's a second hard
drive partition, which would be E...
If you have been meddling with the partitions, that's probably where the
problem lies. You may need to undo what you did, or read the documentation
that came with whatever program you used to make the changes.
