I just got me a few computer tools that will help a lot. Here are a listing of a few: DrDos7.03 <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/drdos703.exe> With Utilities Hard Drive Valet <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/hdvalet.zip> MJB <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/keyfind.zip> XP Key Finder XPkey <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/xpkey.zip> Finder Master Booter <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/mrboot32.zip> Plus EF fdisk diag <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/diag.zip> DOS App For Finding Key In Win9X PCs Wipe/Zap <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/zerofill.zip> Hard Drive Zero Fill Apps Kill/Wipe/Clear/Dump <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/zerocmos.zip> BIOS PW Killers - Sets BIOS To Defaults There are NO trojans in the zerocmos file as may be reported by home-user type anti-virus programs. aefdisk 1.9 <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/aefdsk19.zip> Delete All Partitions Of Any Type DocMemory <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/docmem20.exe> Self Booting RAM Tester DOS USB Driver <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/usbdrive.zip> Collection Restoration 2.X <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/rest2514.exe> Undelete Utility Also Works With NTFS jv16 RegCleaner 4.3 <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/jv16regc.exe> For Win9X/XP jv16 Power Tools <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/jv16ptv1.exe> For XP Includes Registry Cleaner NTFS Bootdisk <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/readntfs.exe> Copy Data From NTFS Partitions To FAT 16/32 Drives. Same Install Directions As Below. Or, click Here <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/readntfs.zip> to just download just the utility itself. Custom XP <http://www.bootdisk.com/2493/xpboot.exe> Fresh Install Bootdisk. Download, put a new disk in your A: drive and click the file to make the disk. 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