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Thanks, Darth - I wound up going to the Device Manager, clicking IDE/ATA, uninstalling Secondary IDE Channel then doing a search for new hardware. The computer picked it up as new and reinstalled it. I was kinda hoping it was broken so I'd have an excuse to get a Mac. ;-)
As a total technophobe being forced to use a PC, this morning I was horrified to find that it wouldn't play my son's CD any more. So I called the PC fix shop who said they might be able to come next week and it would cost me £££s. Eeek! I looked on-line and there was your fix. Thank you so much, Darth! :thumbs:
I would've been lost without your simple step-by-step approach and my son would've never forgiven me for having 'broken' the machine!! I don't think I did anything to delete anything but it was recently moved from storage in a very cold shed back to the house - could this have mangled it??
WG
weedygardener1; the (that) fix is now documented by Microsoft here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060 .
That is an update of earlier documentation such as http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270008 .