Fantastic news and congratulations. I am a little confused. What function other than jplugging in the USB hard drive did it play? How did you manage it all? Did you have sighted help or did you use that Narator thing? Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Saqib To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:43 PM Subject: [access-uk] NC10 Hi all. I have resolved my problem with the netbook. I managed to buy a external drive which is an LG brand. I plugged it in and connected it to the netbook with it's USB cable. The netbook asked me to hit any key to boot from the DVD drive. From there on I went through a formatting process which took over half an hour. The netbook rebooted its self then started to install XP and that took quite a while and I was asked questions reguards to configuration. I also had to install the Samsung drivers from the disk supplied. All in all the whole process took one and an half hours and the netbook runs much faster now. I won't be installing many apps as I think that might of bin one of the things which was slowing it down when starting up. Before I had MS Office Student 2007 amongst 3 screen readers along with lot of other applications and voices. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1667 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message