Well after the time it took to receive the adapter, I was in fact able to save the files that my daughter needed so badly. Thanks for that info.,very much appreciated. It in fact saved me some coin and I still have the adapter. It would have cost her(probably me) 40 bucks to get the files saved, which I was able to do with your help for 30 bucks and as I said earlier I still have the adapter
. Anyway , now she has decided that she no longer wants the HP (that I've described earlier in this thread). So, I would like very much to get this PC functional, if possible. Once I was able to remove her required files I reinstalled the HD but before any further action, I removed the battery, checked voltage(2.7 V) and replaced it. I checked all connections and found that they appeared secure. When I rebooted the system I was able to get further along than anytime previously. I was able to run chkdsk \r which found at least one or more problems. After reboot it actually took me to the desktop but stalled there with the (dreaded forever) hour glass. And, I haven't been able to get that far along again. Whats happening now is that it takes me to the screen where I have the option of Safe Mode,Safe Mode with Networking, etc.,etc. But when I select one of these options what I get is a list of something like; multi(0)disk(0) rdisk(0) partition(2)\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ xxxxx(whatever). If I let the PC run it goes back to default(Start Windows Normally) and if I let it run it takes me to the Windows XP Logo screen and the space where I would normally get the progressing blue bars running, remains blank,which in turn requires rebooting which starts the procedure over once again,and again. This is where I'm stuck. Also one additional thing,I have no indication that the mouse is working?? Hopefully I can get some more help? Oh, and btw, I unfortunately do not have an XP install disk. What came with this PC, and which I have , is two recovery disks. Thks again, overthehill
