HELP

MSN or Yahoo dude.

Ha ha. I will call you soon, when the mrs gets off the phone.

Wazza

I can probably lend you my old laptop if that helps...

$hit you need that like a hole in the head.

Should be able to help. Just set up for similar trip later in the year. I take it you don't have original CD's?

I want to thank everyone .

In just one hr from post , I have had 15 email and 10 msn messages . 18 phone calls all willing to help . I need to take a min here to wipe the tears of joy.

Computer is up and running with new 40 gig hard drive . Found with the help of many drivers for convertor cable . recieved a zillion maps

who says this place isnt awsom ??????

thanks again to everyone

for what its worth.....
i have two hard disks...one primary and one secondary

my secondary holds a copy of all data from my primary
I press the sleep button on computer and it does a back up and then shuts down.....(or click shutdown does the same)

if one looks at the cost of Hard Disk drives these days, its cheap insurance......

lap tops would require a external I guess

Hey Eric, still laughing! What are you worried about the laptop for - when you get into the Simspon all you have to think about is making sure you are going east to west, or west to east. Important to remember that the dunes run north/south or south/north so when the sun comes up start driving towards the morning sun over the sand dunes and eventually you will end up here. Simple you don't need a computer. Hahahaha. LOL LOL.. Hehehehe.....