John,

Dumb luck had me poking around (I finally got the system to boot up) and I logged on as a new user. It is working fine now--but I don't know what happened for the other user (default?) that I used to be. I've been down several paths tonight, none seem to have worked any better than this.

For some reason I can't make Windows backup my entire hard disk (the Win2000 side) because it keeps saying it has run out of space. But I've made sure to put that file on a part of the disk with TONS of space. I guess it will be a piecemeal operation to save it all and compress it.

On the plus side, when I'm working over in the ME side I can use the whole functionality of the computer (as it was intended). I have a small window with a movie playing as I work on email and such. I can't do that with Win2000 (though I haven't tested my new Nero program to see if it will play DVDs--it will record them). This evening it is a bit of fluff I bought for my kids--Romancing the Stone.

SRS (limping along. . .)