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Originally Posted by sidewinder

Oops, I overlooked it too. Ok it returned the C prompt, so I'll hit EXIT. I didn't take the CD out this time, but let it do it's thing and didn't type a key when asked to if I wanted to boot from CD. Blank screen.

Ejected CD, shut off and back on, nothing but a blank screen.

Could it be that my boot order still says CD drive first? Or I guess it would automatically go the the next option if there's no disc? Dunno, just throwing out ideas.

Nah, if you don't choose to boot from the CD by pressing any key, it will go to the next option, which would be your hard drive presumably.

The only other thing I can suggest at this point is to put all possible versions of the file into your driver directory. Since you already have the .sy_ in there, let's go ahead and and throw in the rest. If they're not actually used, it won't matter that they're there unnecessarily. Do:

COPY H:\I386\volsnap.in_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\volsnap.in_
COPY H:\I386\volsnap.in_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\volsnap.ini
COPY H:\I386\volsnap.sy_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\volsnap.sys

Exit and reboot.
If that doesn't give you results, I'll be needing to do some research. But off the top of my head, I do know that you can back up any files or directories with files in it you may want to save... to another drive like a USB key or external drive, using command console, in case you have to reinstall the operating system. Hopefully we can resolve this without having to do that though. But just know that you won't lose everything.