Profound and sincere thanks to Blencogo, the discs arrived.
But, as we expected, it will not recover to my older laptop. With your permission, Blencogo, I would like to upload these to internetarchiveorg as there is nothing there for our old laptops.
Where I am now, is a cleanly booting and functioning SSD, 3GB of Ram available of the 4 installed, W7 with all of the AR drivers and utilities that did not conflict (noted in a previous post).
I did succeed in forcing the ALPS touchpad driver (though W7 reports an incompatibility, it works) and gained horizontal and vertical scrolling. AND, from a random source, a Toshiba Avermedia tuner driver which works and gives access to the tuner (in Media Center software) BUT the tuner does not "see" any stations (in Spain at least). I guess the digital broadcast system has changed. So that is a wash.
Neither did I have any success with the camera driver, it seems to be totally incompatible with W7.
Result, I guess, is as good as I can get, unless I buy a floppy drive, copy the SATA driver to floppy, and install XP or Vista, and then all of the AR drivers........ which I will probably try this summer.
Again, thank you Blencogo, for help above and beyond.
