The problem is this :
My sister in law has an old W98 system, running in a Packard Bell box.
She wants to upgrade to XP.
I got a 40GB HDD, and using MY set-up, I've partitioned it, and loaded XP Pro + SP2 and any updates that were outstanding [it's a legit version of XP]

Also loaded Norton NetSec 2004, and updated that.

Set the EMail accounts and the ISP accounts for her and her daughter.
Jobs a good 'un........

To her house, out with the old, and in with the new, added an additional 128MB of RAM to the existing 64MB.

Switch on................nada......................it fails to load.

Cannot remember the exact point at which it became apparent that nothing was going to happen. This was about a week ago, and I've been looking a bit, but haven't really got the time, nor the skills to get the most out of Google............

SO: does anyone know if there is a feature in Packard Bell that prevents you from just plugging in a new HDD, ready loaded ?

Do you have to load everything in from the Packard Bell box ? ie: not do it on my system......

Or: have I missed out the basics ?

TIA

I seem to remember that P-Bell went their own way when IBM presented the PC to the world, to allow the ubiquitous clone to advance.