Seems I spend more time fixing my Wife's computer
that anything else.
Her mother board went out and I bought a new mother
board but Windows XP will
no longer boot. It comes up in the BIOS and setup
fine. Naturally she did
back up here data and I would like to get that drive
to boot.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Drivers are different!!!

Just reinstall Windows on the same drive and use
c:\Winnt for the windows folder and do not format the
drive. All the data will be on the drive in the same
folders as before.

Bryan

She lost the disk years ago and they want $200 for a new OS.
New computers don't come with OS disk. If your computer
breaks you are SOL.

Why don't they put all the drivers on the hard disk anyway during the first
install? The computer is a computer. It should be able to figure out
what drivers are needed and load them off the hard disk and install
them. An IDE is an IDE. Linux has no problem.
What is a couple of hundred K for drivers when the OS is over a gig?
We fixed DOS computers for fifteen  years without all this hassle.

My wife drives me crazy with this stupid thing. Linux is 1/100 of the trouble.
If I need a new OS I go to the book store and buy a new one along with
a magazine for $9.95.

BTW Fry's has a new mother board about 6.5 by 6.5 inches WITH 1 gigi hertz
CPU for $169. Perfect for a glass cockpit. It is called an EPIA-1000.
You can get a Syba Compact flash to IDE host interface card for $12.95.
A four gig solid state compact flash drive will then store the program and
data with no hard drive required.

Could be used with DOS as a engine monitoring display driver
and data acquisition system. I have some moving map software that runs
on DOS taking in data from a GPS every 2 seconds. It also records your lat long
position, altitude, speed and heading once two seconds as well. 10 meg will
store hours of flight. Complete with the FAA runway data base.

Also the PICAXE can talk to DOS in real times so DOS is not a bad way to
go. You could use this computer to control the fuel injection as QB is
a real time basic. On a gigi hertz processor compiled QB would
be very powerful as a fuel injection system. Hardware technology marches
on and software is going backwards.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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