I really hope someone has a good idea what is going on with my SSD partition of W7 Professional X64 using a Core2Duo processor. I think I may have confused HAL with my old HDD that I currently have in my DVD/CD bay via an Ultrabay Adapter on my laptop.
I had the platter drive with W7 installed first and then got the SSD later on. I installed W7 on the SSD as a boot OS device. I shrunk the old W7 partition on the platter drive and allocated a huge portion of what was left and created a partition for music, movies, etc.
That was my original idea. To use the SSD for fast boots and access and the platter drive for storage.
Now for some reason when I go to task manager I'll see only one core working under Performance. I also used Core Temp 64 it shows only one core also. I got a little curious and chose my old platter drive as the boot. That W7 installation shows 2 cores working in task manager!
After reading some threads it seems that I may have to reinstall W7 on my SSD. I'd probably think it would be wise to erase the old W7 partition on the platter drive.
Hello Shawn!
Thank you for this Tip ! It was spot on Somehow while meddling in msconfig I must have clicked near said option and of course the limit to 1 Cpu was set. I already restored to earlier Restore points to no avail. But thanks to you everything runs fine again.
-DG
My Computer
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP m8000n
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2600 MHz 5200+
Motherboard
Asus M2N68-LA (Narra)
Memory
Samsung 2GB DDR2
Graphics Card(s)
Onboard NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Sound Card
Onboard nVIDIA nForce 6100-430 (MCP61P)
Monitor(s) Displays
Westinghouse 19" LED
Screen Resolution
1280x1024
Hard Drives
SATA II Seagate Barracuda 500GB
USB II WD Elements 500GB
USB II WD My Book 1TB
USB II WD My Book 2TB
Somehow while meddling in msconfig I must have clicked near said option and of course the limit to 1 Cpu was set. I already restored to earlier Restore points to no avail. But thanks to you everything runs fine again. 
