System crashed, have reinstalled but now can't switch on wifi.

Guapa1

Hi there TF, thank you, I'll have to download that in the morning, as I'm back upstairs now. Thanks for you help today, it's appreciated

Guapa1

Oh, just seen your update, I don't know what slipstreaming is, but I'll have a go tomorrow. Night x

Guapa1

Good morning, I thought that I am sitting here typing on my laptop!!!

What I did was to download SP 2 and 3, I installed them, then reinstalled all the drivers. I looked at a few articles about slipstreaming, one had a compehensive step by step, so later in the week, I"m going to pick up some CDs and make a XP cd and drivers CD.

Thank you everyone who helped me, it was really appreciated. I actually enjoyed trying to figure it out, it was the stairs that were the annoying bit.

Right I'm off to install a firewall and other bits and pieces. xx

Guapa1

OK I spoke too soon!

Looked at my device manager, and the ethernet controller and Sigma Tel C Major still have exclamation marks. What to do?

-TangleFoot-

Are you connecting to the Internet via the laptop now?

Guapa1

Yes I'm back online. I suppose that's all that matters eh?

-TangleFoot-

It certainly does! Assuming you've already activated Windows XP, you may be able to get the remaining drivers from Windows Update. Go to Start→Help and Support, select "Keep your computer up-to-date with Windows Update" and - when it appears - click Custom. After a short interval, you should see a list of categories on the left, one of which will be Hardware, Optional followed by a number in brackets.

What you do next is - I hope - pretty obvious.

Guapa1

Thanks for that, I've run into another problem!

As I was updating a pop up appeared to say that there isn't much space left on the local disk.

I was confused because I haven't even got Windows Media Player on here!

So I looked at the properties,and my space seems to be split in half between C and E disk.
Can I merge them together?

-TangleFoot-

Guapa1 wrote: »

Can I merge them together?

It's certainly a possibility, but in doing so you risk losing data. There might be something important in there too. Take a look.

Guapa1

OK I've had a closer look, and I was wrong earlier.The C disk has a capacity to 34gb and has 30gb, the E disk has 3gb of space but only 1mb of space.

I keep getting a pop up saying it's critically low and it needs at least 200mb, and asks me to delete some programs, but I lost everything when I reinstalled xp and the only things I've put on there is firefox and an antivirus.

I don't think the programs used to live on the E drive.