Sorry about being away so long, computer crashes are so much fun. Went to fire it up & .... nothing, wouldnt startup. Checked for loose switch wires ( i`ve had that problem before), everything plugged in & seemed ok. More checking found the problem was a bad power supply. OK, off the the HP parts store website..obsolete part number. all the HP resellers..not in stock/not avail. GRRRR. Power supply from from my waaaayyy older HP parts machine didnt match up with the wiring harness. Finaly got a used Windowz 7 computer from my son, full of weird games & assorted strange programs, no anti-virus software, yadda yadda. Took awhile to get that hardrive cleaned up & setup the way i wanted it. Installed my the hard drive from my HP as a slave drive...."windows cannot access data on driveE" " "Drive needs to be reformated" " Do you want to reformat now?" NOOOOOOOOO your NOT erasing my data! more checking.. hmm only showing drive size as 32MB. That aint right, it`s 160 GB, almost a million files of family genealogies, complete town & State histories, Unit histories, thousands of pictures, 5 huge family tree files in Family Tree Maker, over 2,500 links to research websites, software & data files for my website. etc. Rechecked the jumper pin settings on the drive, should work, still wouldnt access drive. Removed the jumper pin & tried it, that worked, got access to all my data finaly. Still had problems reinstalling the programs i had, some were not compatible with Winderz 7, some couldnt pick up the backup files yadda yadda. Taking things one step at a time, i got back about 99% of the data. Still having a browser problem with Ancestry.com`s image viewer.
Anyway, i`m back!