You've lost me now. You should need nothing from HP to get Win Me up and
running. When you have done that, and NOT before, you can start adding in
third party drivers such as that for your motherboard chipset. If you are
saying the motherboard is from HP then you should hopefully be able to
obtain all the drivers you need from the HP web site.

Incidentally, drivers are most unlikely to be provided as a cab file. In
most cases these will be in the form of an exe or zip file which when run
creates a folder to which you then point the properties sheet for the
device in question so as to add the driver or, as can also be the case, an
exe file that when run installs the driver plus quite often other third
party utilities - this latter often being the method used by HP to install
their printers.

The one problem I now realise is that HP may well have removed all Win me
drivers from their web site including those for your PC. Win Me is long
out of support and I know that HP removed virtually all Win Me drivers for
their printers a couple of years ago.

I hate to say this but just as one needs to learn to walk before one can
run the same is true of getting your PC up and running with the
transferred hard drive. Get Win Me running and taking you to the desktop
in Normal Mode and then and ONLY then think about installing
manufacturer's drivers for your hardware.
--
Mike Maltby



William B. Lurie wrote:

And now, Mike, a short while later, I return from having
examined Registry. What is there, is exactly what it
says as the location of the files it needs. Then, according to
what you told me, it will find them unless the files concerned
are for a third party device. So that's my next obstacle.
Is my next step, then, to contact HP, the manufacturer of
this new machine, and ask him how I can download a CAB by
that name, which is for this application in this machine?
If so, I'm sure it would be a dead end.