Windows XP clean install

[NooNoo]

Brilliant Angie - perserverence always pays off with you! I understand about the phone, perhaps instant messaging would have been a better proposal... space bar problems or no!

Keyboards of the cheap and cheerful variety can be got for a fiver if you don't go to pc world....

[MorseLady]

Thanks Noo. I have found an old white keyboard in the cupboard and it is good so I am able to type again. Will pick up a black one from Argos or Currys when I go out later to choose a cooker, old cooker tripping power circuit and only one hotplate working so got to buy a new one

Not got all the drivers back on my main computer yet as had to have a lie down to make up for lost sleep and despite being tired washing my car this morning, I hate seeing dust and sap on it. Meanwhile my cat is asleep on the settee! He's been busy all night too, poor mice! Like most cats he is not easy to get in at night.

I am using my other computer to access the Internet and in no hurry to finish the job on the main one now I know I have a decent instal of Windows on it I can relax and take my time.

I used to use a lot of instant messaging with Yahoo Messenger mostly with members of my own Yahoo Groups but prefer to post to forums or use email.

I don't know what I would do without my friends on the web and that includes the Windrivers forums gang. I think just being able to come on here and talk about a problem helps me resolve it. I may have been a bit unconventional and took a chance and could have lost my MBR but it worked. It involved using my W98 boot disk to get FDISK and then when that did not solve the problem completely I used PM8 to merge my partitions so the setup disc could only go one way. My data and photos are of course backed up on DVDs all ten of them! Be fun putting that lot back once I have all my drivers on and can safely create a new data partition.


Angie