Last word on my computer travails. Spotted a GNU License ding-joint (pay if you like it) piece of software called Clonezilla. Does the same as Norton Ghost but Much less fussy. Built a boot pen drive with it and cloned my hard drives and, voila, the new ones worked. I'm typing on one of them right now. Bumped the RAM to 2 Gig, too, and the new 2.5 is 7200 RPM. Whoohse....
(As Tacticus said of the Roman war machine - "They scorch the earth and call it victory." I have recoverable machines now. Call it victory....)
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