Firstly, much thanks for all of your replies!I think I�ve dodged a bullet on this PC � it lives another day. I switched on my PC last night and the hard disk booted-up and ran like it should. Not wanting to take any chances, I quickly went out and bought a new hard disk, installed it as a slave and via the new disk�s software, I made it bootable and copied all of the files from the old hard disk. Then, I shut things down, removed the old hard disk, configured the jumpers on the new disk for solo duty � sort of a PC heart transplant! I then buttoned things-up and it looks like (knock on wood) like I�m good to go for a while longer. Next thing I�m going to do, before I put it back under my desk is give it a good blowing out � dust everywhere! And add another 256mb of ram to max it out at 512mb. Oh, I think I am also going upgrade to cable modem service. Around my neck of the woods, it costs less for that than DSL and I gather it is faster too. Thanks again,
Bill
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