Don’t drive drunk, don’t shop hungry and don’t install tired. As I said in my last post my main PC is reduced to safe mode only and after a very long and tiring Saturday I vegetated most of Sunday but in a fit of “I must do something” I installed XP on a second disk in my knackered machine.

I meant to fit a new drive and install the old one as a slave but I was too weary and just slipped a removable drive in. I now get a choice of Win 2k or XP now but the 2K won’t boot at all, in safe mode it says the SYSTEM is missing, a R from the old 2k CD didn’t help so it looks like I’ve truly knackered it this time.

Arrg, I have so many apps installed I can’t remember them all, I just wanted a look through all programs - I guess I just have to explore it from XP.

How do I get my favourites though? MS help explains it from IE 7 or 8 - I’m still on 6! I expect firefox can do it.

It took me ages to navigate my way into this blog entry page without them - one reason it’s been so long (did you miss me?).

Then I’ve got to drag all my Outlook express mails across - I seem to remember that is a pain. Do I have to recreate the folder structure by hand?

I do have back ups - just not simple restore the whole system ones. Now that external HD’s are cheap(ish) maybe I should look at something like the Mac time machine - any recommendations?