Things have gone chaotic. Sad thing about one-man-bands, they can be very lucrative, but input from others, especially old dads, is something that has to be handled with kid gloves. Stressed Eric told me just now that he was up till o'gor blimy, and still hadn't mastered the divers for graphics and sound.
Acer and Gateway combo board. I know that feeling, but only with sound. Put in driver, and W7 wipes it next boot and goes back to pnp.
Anyway, that's secondary. W7 could see the second physical drive, allotted D and E, but not read any files on D. The old Restore files in their partition however, could be seen. Sounds bad.
So, looking at utilities for getting files off - or, going back to putting a new copy of XP over the old one in the hope it will repair the FATs. Does that have any merit at all? I guess if CHKDSK has done a nasty, a new OS won't structure a new set of FATs for old files, right?
Worse, his 1TB backup drive is showing folders, but there's nowt in them.