Thanks for your input, I had a repair guy come out and he had to take it back to factory restore,lucky I didn't have to much on it and what I did I had backed up. Regarding your question john from new all I did with the XL2 was to connect it to the PC and windows 7 recognised it.
One thing that the Repair man did say was that the hard drive on the PC was a bit noisy (scratchy sort of noise)
PC is a few months old?