As I had put the old (unstable?) Ethernet card back into the spare PC, I ‘d predicted I’d simply transferred the problem from one

As of about 6pm yesterday Windows had been recovered on DDS. But, from bitter experience, I know it arrogantly over-writes any other boot managers etc.

Windows disobeyed a direct order, then – by accident – it fixed things up. Here’s how it happened. To add to my woes, I started seeing

Oh dear. Looks like the DVD on DDS drive is faulty. Updated the firmware, it was like 3 levels behind. But still not working properly.

In pondering DDS things, I realised that I may need an optical drive (CD) after all. Problem [1] as you may recall, was running out