chard0919 0 Light Poster

hi!my wife just bought a new EL1300-E2 emachines here in japan,it has a windows xp home edition sp3,i wanna save the OS and install another english os on other partition but i got my drive screwd up,so i did a clean install instead and deleted the jap os and installed my legite copy of windows xp pro...i installed/restored all the original drivers w/the help of driver max,but forgot what region it is set before reinstalling a new os,tried jap,english,chinese lay outs but still my @ is on the number 2 button and many others not in place...any help would be appreciated...tnx!!!