As Goose said, laptops can be trouble. I just recently had to reinstall Windows 98SE on a Compaq laptop at work (this was the original OS for this machine). We didn't have a restore CD and the hard drive with the restore partition was toast. The laptop was unusable until I downloaded the various drivers from Compaq on to another machine and installed them. Laptops can tend to cause you to use bad words on any OS ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. To visit the main website for Free Geek Michiana go to http://www.freegeekmichiana.org To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/ You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana