A customer had a failed motherboard.

We decide to install a new mobo/CPU/RAM combination.

While backing up his data (onto my system), I notice that his drives have lots of partitions (120GB HDD has 5 partitions… some ntfs, some fat32… the 160Gb HDD has 7 NTFS partitions).

This looks like a leftover from the windows 98 days…

I use partition magic to merge everything into just 1 partition per drive.

I then place the HDDs into the customers PC, do a repair install of xp, but xp starts giving some odd errors:

error 1327 : invalid drive.

I’m then told to restore the my documents folder

A scan of the internet doesn’t show anything relevant.

I figure the my documents is pointing to a drive that no longer exists, so I do what I’m told:

right-click on my documents -> properties -> restore default.

Hey, its all working fine now (except office is not happy… I gather it was installed on another drive).

Looks like office will need to be reinstalled.