Desktops & All-In-Ones

[SJR]

I replaced the hard drive on my PC which was cloned from the original HD. Everything is working OK except I keep getting a message that says "H refers to a location that is not available". When I look in "my computer" there is no H drive, but sometimes it pops up for a couple of seconds and I can see it is the PQService. How can I get rid of this message? It keeps popping up, even if I closed the screen it comes back after a few seconds. Everything works ok but it is annoying.  I am running Vista home edition and came with the PC

[Alan-London]

I suspect that you have only cloned your C: drive and not all of your original partitions. From what I have managed to find, the PQService is implemented by Acer and it is looking for your recovery partition which may not exist on your new drive.

I would probably try repeating the cloning and ensure that all original partitions are included.

[SJR]

The recovery partition was cloned and appears to be ok. Sometimes the PC boots fine with no message, but if I put in a cd, which is drive G, I get the message about the H drive not being accesable. The cd rom works fine in fact everything is working ok, but this message keeps popping up. Is there a way to just delete the recovery partition?

[Alan-London]

Should you succeed in deleting your recovery partition, how will you manage a reinstall if ever needed?

I would be trying to preserve it. I still feel your clone was not successful. Firstly, from what I can gather, PQService should not be 'H' but 'X'. Have you formatted any partition(s) since cloning? I ask because I am of the opinion that you have overwritten your MBR. Have you tested the recovery mode (ALT F10)? If I am correct, I suspect that will not work.

[SJR]

Have not tried that. Will try it and post back. Thank you