Drive Letters under "My Computer" replaced by "Ngs for handwriting"?

Hi Guys - new to the forum.

The problem that I have is that all of the sudden, I noticed that when I open "My Computer", no drive letters are listed for my harddrives and DVD drive. Instead...they are listed as "NGS for handwriting Personalization. Please take a look at the provided screenshot. You will know what I am referring to.

When I tried searching this on Google, I've got some hits referencing Personalize Handwriting Recognition, but it referenced Tablet PC's/Laptops. However, my desktop pc is not a tablet!!!

Any help would greatly be appreciated it. Also, please let me know if you require additional information to troubleshoot this. Thanks.

MilesAhead said:

Try changing the View in the View menu to "Tiles View." If that isn't it then it's something really weird. :)

Thanks but I've already tried the different views including the Tile view and it was the same.

Brink said:

Hello MegaPain, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If you have a restore point dated before this happened available, you could try doing a system restore with it to hopefully fix this.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Thanks Shawn. I'll give that a try when I get home later tonight and provide an update. I was hoping there was a fix for this without performing a system restore since I don't exactly know when this changed on my PC.

In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know.

I tried system restore but the system requested that I run chkdsk right afterwards. I did and then it started to recover a bunch of orphaned files. The system wouldn't boot to the login screen afterwards so I ended just installing the system image that I made from July. I wish I could have found what caused the original issue but oh well.

I that you just couldn't use Defragmentation on SSD's. I didn't realize that you shouldn't use Chkdsk either. Well...now I know. This is my first SSD and I've only had it for a couple of months now. Thanks for the tip Brink.