I installed 2008-1 from new install on my computer and all was well (using gnome). I have 2 usb drives and a windows xp drive and an internal ide drive. Those are all formatted ntfs. A separate ide harddrive houses mandriva.

The trouble begins when I removed an ide CD RW drive and replaced it with a DVD RW drive (ide also) both are masters on the 2nd drive controller. The drive works fine, but now I will boot up and everything LOOKS normal. All of the drives have icons on the desktop. IF I click on the icons, they all disappear for ~ 2 seconds and they then reappear and the nautilus directory for /home/john appears. (No matter which icon I click on, I get that directory). If I go into gnome-commander, all of the drives are accessible, readable, writable and normal.

What have I done to the desktop icons and how do I recover their proper function?
Also I put a text document on the desktop. If I click it, I get the same response...the /home/john directory. I cannot delete the text file or move it to the trashcan. For that matter, if I click the trashcan I get the /home/john directory.

John

Well, I made the problem go away (as opposed to fixed it). At near the same time I put the dvd on I installed a couple of Gnome programs (Gnome menu and several others.) Upon uninstalling those the problem disappeared. Unfortunately I am not sure which of the programs was the problem.

John

Maybe a silly question has IDE CD RW and DVD RW has jumpers just like IDE harddrives ?
If so do you put in the same way as before ?


all the best

Yes I did. In addition, it is a dual boot system. On the windows side and linux side the drive works. On the windows side Nero 7 has been installed (came with the drive). It does all of its stuff without flaw. I am very sure (99%) that the drive is installed correctly. Since gnome-commander has no trouble using the drives, it would seem a desktop problem.
Thanks for your response.

John