eaterbooger,
Could you maybe stick around and be our resident computer expert? The information you gave was very informative. I just restored my entire computer last month using discs that dell sent me because I kept getting the blue screen of death and after running the chkdsk and trying all sorts of things, they couldn't figure out the problem. After restoring the computer I still got the blue screen so they sent me a new hard drive and helped me load everything back in and it works great now. It use to take about 5 minutes for everything to load and it now loads in about 20 seconds. I'm thrilled with the results even if it took two weeks to get it running again.
Anyway you sound very knowledgeable and I hate talking to India(nothing against them, we just don't communicate very effectively together). The Dell tech I finally got after several others that I couldn't understand, was from Okla and he stayed with me for over a week helping me and calling to check up. I love him but I could grow to love you too LOL.
Nancy