“There is no native (supplied by Microsoft) support for USB in Windows NT!” – Wikipedia.

Well I didn’t know that…..and would explain why I couldn’t get the USB ports to work! 😮

Shows how long since I’ve used NT…..however, Wikipedia also had a useful link to a USB driver for NT (nice one!) which I burned onto a CD, all 5MB of it!

I then loaded the USB driver onto the laptop via the docking-station CD drive (which is working but cannot write to a CD so didn’t help me) and hey-presto…

…the USB port is working! 🙂

Problem solved…..data transferred…..it only took me about three hours…..still, better than watching TV!

Thanks for all the suggestions.