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Nov 30, 2015 - 6:53 AM
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Grecchus
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I'm using the new/reconditioned Western Digital hard drive that replaced the dying Samsung snce I last posted on this thread 1-2 months ago.
Also, when my pc starts up, I get the following screen:
"Windows Boot Manager
Choose an operating system or use a a tab to select a tool.
1. Microsoft Windows Vista
2. Windows Vista Home Basic (Recovered)"
When I use "1. Microsoft Windows Vista", I get to my desktop, but if I pick "2. Windows Vista Home Basic (Recovered)", I get back to square one.
So again, is the "Recovery (C)" instead of "(C)t he cause of the free space problem?
That, I don't know, although as far as I know you should be able to use the operating system disc to troubleshoot some diagnostics. That's what I would do, but it means going into the BIOS at startup to make sure the CD/DvD drive first does a scan to see if a bootable disc is present - if it isn't already set up that way. You can go into the BIOS by pressing the "delete" key (and keeping it pressed down) as soon as the machine comes alive right after you switch it on. From the BIOS there is a menu option that lets you select the C, D or even the A drive (if a floppy drive is present) as the default at startup. So what I'm saying is, instead of booting off the C: drive like you would normally, it is possible to set up your computer so that it boots off the D: drive as long as the Vista system disc is inside it at the time. Of course, this is what you would do if you want to install the Operating System on a zeroed or blank hard disk drive in order to perform a clean install. I know you can do this with Windows 7 because I've done it myself. There are several options that appear when you do that, one of which will automatically attempt to fix any problems. So, that is one way forward. This method bypasses the OS on the C: drive by loading everything it needs into memory from the boot CD/DvD, then checks the C: drive independently of the control the OS would otherwise have from the C: drive itself.
Once everything is sorted you can then go back into the BIOS at next startup and revert everything back to the way it was before changing which drive is used as the default boot device. In fact, if you've ever seen the D: drive green light come on when you've switched your computer on, even though the drive might be empty, it will be because the BIOS has been set up to check that drive before proceeding on to the C: drive. Basically, the BIOS has options you can select that allows you to alter the boot drive priority. There are a few permutations that are built-in and which you can choose as a selection. It doesn't really do any harm if any other drive than C: is the default option, however, it does waste a bit of time because the system will have to spend time determining if a valid CD/DvD is in there before doing anything else. So the best thing is to make sure the machine first boots off the C: drive if it's working normally.
Edit: following this link may be of some help -
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/windows-vista-startup-repair.htm
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Dec 1, 2015 - 10:08 AM
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Grecchus
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My word, Dragon, that machine of yours is truly a pain-in-the-***! 
Have you tried the recovery method set out just a little above? To be honest, given you've only just reinstalled the whole system, I don't see why you have all these problems. Your registry should be relatively free of crap, which builds up over time. Make sure you backup the registry and create a restore point so that any further inclusions to your software can well and truly be undone if they cause anything else to go further south.
The one thing I'm thinking is your limited memory of 1Gb might be where the bottleneck lies. That is half the size of the memory on the XP system I'm typing from right now.
I don't know what is causing 1). As far as 2) goes, your Dell machine probably originally came with two hard disk partitions. One was the C: drive, the other would have been an area of the hard disk reserved for disaster recovery of the system. I'm guessing that because the OS came as a Dell package, there is a toggle somewhere in the OS that is expecting to see that recovery partition, which is probably not there now as you've clean-installed Vista into a single partition using up all your hard disk space for the C: drive. There is an art to partitioning HDDs and getting it wrong can probably lead to problems. Your no. 3) could be happening for a whole variety of reasons. Anti-virus programs are quite complex and need to tap into the depths of the OS so they can see everything going on.
All I can suggest is that you follow the Repair options in the thread above, using your Vista CD or DvD, and see if that can put things straight.
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