I spent the weekend rebuilding my computer AGAIN while trouble-shooting why ActiveSync has stopped working with my PDA. It had stopped working prior to the rebuild of the 1st Sep. Finally tracked down the problem to the firewall. ActiveSync uses TCP/IP and some ports. The ActiveSync applications need to be allowed access to these ports.
This time I did not delete the backup!
I spent the weekend rebuilding my computer. I try to run as much as possible using Virtual Machines which makes the process of rebuilding the 'host' a lot faster. I managed to delete the backup though!
I have decided to use the second drive as a secondary boot disk for using the DVD±RW drive and the Pinnacle video capture and editing software. The main boot disk now has no DVD±RW drive support.
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