"You know, you're right; I ran Norton Ingegrator, Restore, the whole thing. It SHOULD have worked."
Howlin, get yourself a imaging program like DriveImage, now owned by Symantec or TrueImage by Acronis, they will save you enormous problems and are far superior than xp's restore. Most important is that they bypass xp completely whereas system restore does not.
Might need to get an addition hard drive...call us , that will be a simple install after all of this effort....check NEWEGG for prices or outpost.com (FREYS online ), they seem to have connections as they are always running specials with rebates....I have an abundance of hard drives from Freys, 4 or 5 250 gigs, couple of 160 gigs, 3 or 4 120 gigs,.and they have a nice special with rebate on an 80 gig for Hitachi ..$60 with rebate $25. cost at $ 34.99 after the rebate....