Beachbum

I like to upgrade my System, but do not now what type of Motherboard and Processor to buy. I have access to the following Manufacturers and Types. AMD & Thunderbird Socket A AMD Athalon Slot A Pentium 4 Socket 423 Intel Chipset Celeron PII, III & VIA ABIT, ASUS, CHAINTECH, EPOX, GIGABITE, INTEL & SUPERMICRO

I have not heard of any Apps which do not run on the latest Service Packs. Why don't you install at least SP4 and make a backup so you can restore to your previos SP at any time. Work yourself up to SP6a (128) if you can, which should resolve any problems. Get a trial Version of Ghost from Symantec and ghost your image to a Server , spare Hard Disk or another PC. So if you trash it you can re ghost your PC within minutes. You also could get Drive Image from Power Quest (trial version) Good tools if you need to experiement and need to rebuild you PC.

Norton Ghost won't allow you to make an Image to a local NTFS partition. The only way you can Ghost an image is to ghost it to a second HDD or over the network to a server or another PC. Then you are able to burn an image to CD. Once you have an image you can extract individiual files if required via Ghost explorere. If you have two PC's which are networked via a Hub or a crossover cable, let me know what network cards you are using, and I can create you a boot disk to connect to the other PC and ghost your images. Or you can download Ghost boot disks from www.bootdisk.com

I have been using Norton Ghost for some years now, backing up my PC's and have had no troubles at all. It seems that Drive Image is the thing. Any Idea where I can download a trial version?

It's running fine on my Machine. W2K - SP2 & IE5 (128bit) If you are not running IE5(128Bit) try to upgrade to it and install SP2 again. Good luck and let us know how you got on

Download the latest Update v4.03 from www.roxio.com. Also upgrade your OS to Service pack 2 which should resolve your problem. It did it for me. Good luck and let us know how you got on