The Dell logo that shows up at boot-up is coming from the BIOS, not the hard drive. To prevent it from appearing just go into the BIOS on bootup (press Del) and disable the "Silent Boot" setting, or whatever the appropriate setting is. Unless you flash your BIOS the Dell logo will always show up one way or another. It's just branding, and has nothing to do with any conspiracies :-) . Gavin Sharp [log in to unmask] PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml