Thanks for the ideas people...
I have just managed to get my PC back in shape, I had a lot of massaging to do - WindowsXP was finally good enough to let me repair the installation back to SP1 - but I spent 3 days trying to convince it to let me upgrade to SP2 - no chance.
So the result is a new Hard drive, with the old drive as a slave drive with all my old apps and data on, still mostly in tact I a glad to say.
Now the hard task of rebuilding my PC installation back to a professionally usable machine, but with a much reduced application base this time.
It's really good to be back on line, I just received the 54 emails which were still waiting since Wednesday! Lol - mostly tosh.
IPete2.
I have just managed to get my PC back in shape, I had a lot of massaging to do - WindowsXP was finally good enough to let me repair the installation back to SP1 - but I spent 3 days trying to convince it to let me upgrade to SP2 - no chance.
So the result is a new Hard drive, with the old drive as a slave drive with all my old apps and data on, still mostly in tact I a glad to say.
Now the hard task of rebuilding my PC installation back to a professionally usable machine, but with a much reduced application base this time.
It's really good to be back on line, I just received the 54 emails which were still waiting since Wednesday! Lol - mostly tosh.
IPete2.