thanks horatio and maggie for your input. i will get rid of the iTouch keyboard. it has been a pain....
maggie's idea about battery and cmos. i have clearee the comos after putting the unit. so i know how to do that. but i don't understand the consequences. it clears all previous data. can i then boot or would it not bootable at all? i don't know what happens after that.
My new HD has several logical partitions; my old unit has 2 HD, c:\ is bootable. what is the best and easiest way of handling this, horatio? Take out the old c:\ drive and install it in thed new pc as Primary Master and make the current unbootable primary master into a slave. is that the way best?
thanks for thinking this through with me to both of you.