Howard, Re your lost partition & perhaps fowled boot sector of your hard drive, go to this page DOS TOOLS Galore http://master.swlibero.org/~daniele/dos/valuedos.html I suggest You scroll down to "hard disk" & try presizer & tstdsk. (presizer is a free partition magic-like), I've mentioned it here! Best wishes, Armando. 9) I wish you good health and much happiness, today and always. ________________________________________________ PeoplePC: It's for people. And it's just smart. http://www.peoplepc.com UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk