It was with some apprehension that I went off today to tackle the networking job from yesterday. I installed two fixes on each computer yesterday and nothing seemed to work. Today I plugged the network cable directly into the modem/router and suddenly it was working. What a relief! I didn't have to wade through the numerous forum posts that I read through last night. Seems there's lots of varied ways that people used to get this to work. Both computers are still saying the network cables are unplugged (and on the new one it is), but it's working, so -shrug... Why it works that way and not through the network card in the computer is a mystery. The card works, because the modem was using that socket before I changed it to USB.
Next on the agenda was to format the 200 GB hard-drive. I decided on four partitions. They're huge, and with very little used space. One drive is reserved for backups, and Norton Ghost has been installed to take care of that. I left copies of all the software I installed in the backup drive in case of the need for a re-install. One drive will be used just for business dealing, tax programs, work-related things, etc, and the last drive is still empty and un-named. I think it will be a long time before the hard-drive fills up.
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