hello, the machine is only 3 years old,yes i did destroy all the data on it after i formatted.i still have the larger drive but it won't read it. last night a neighbor gave me a windows 2000 disc and i formatted the drive again and it worked;it saw the full capacity of the drive and is ready to use, however when i try to bring the second drive with 225 + gigs of data on it it will not see it no matter how i switch things around bios won't read it, so i took it out, the drive i have working is set to master and is the only drive in the pc but bios says it is a secondary slave drive but it is on the primary ide channel and set to master!!everything in bios is set to auto detect drives,but as soon as i connect the other drive as a slave drive and reboot, the computer freezes and gets stuck on the post screen and hangs.funny thing is when i take that drive and put it in the hard drive enclosure that converts regular drives to use with usb and plug it into the computer i am on right now and reboot, windows comes up and says : found new hardware,mass storage usb device,your hardware is installed and ready to use,it even gives me a new drive letter,shows the drive as a western digital drive but... when i click on the drive letter it says please insert a disk into drive j....hmmm

Have you tried going into Device Manager and un-installing the mouse and rebooting the computer. This will re-install the mouse and fix any corrupt driver problems. If your mouse has any special drivers on a disk you mite want to have the disk handy to use. Some special functions require special drivers. Pooh Bear

Now don't get carried away PK, of course you are going to have to buy another. Heck 3 or 4 maybe as you are obviously not too old seeing you are still giving those hogs a home. All electronics have built in obsolescence you know. Lenovo is Chinese owned, they bought up IBM. I have not read much bad about the company, I think Mikie who hangs out here owns a Lenovo which he seems happy with. You could Google 'Lenovo complaints' or 'Lenovo reviews' or even include the specific model and see what others think but be sure you read the complaints fairly as there are those who complain about silly things. Honest complaints are worth reading of course.

Look in your router, in the "Wireless" settings. Look for the place where you set the encryption to "WEP" -- the "key 1" will be nearby. from the linksys forums you can use a generator to give you a custom key which I think is helpful Custom WEP Key however you do know that WEP is not very secure that you should be using WPA or WPA2 right?