Sunday, June 29, 2008

AVG Anti-Virus 8 for WinXP

Update 9 Jul 2008, Wed
A scheduled scan found 15 infections (Win32/Alman) all in the hidden system folder_System Volume Information on my data drive. Where did they come from?

Update 2 Jul 2008, Wed
The anti-virus was successfully installed after a clean installation of WinXP with WinXPsp3 patch. A professional clean-cut looking interface

Friday, June 20, 2008

Partitioning and Image Ghost Restore

Update 28 Jun 2008, Sat
Finally, cause found. When all partitions are set as primary, then the boot flag must be set on the Window OS partition while the rest set as inactive.

Update 27 Jun 2008, Fri
Partition and then a re-installation from the recovery disk. The windows start up files kept turning up on the wrong partition. There is a wrong setting somewhere... it's now nearing dawn.