Dear James, Thanks for the elaborate reply. You have some great ideas there. I think I have formatted the HD as FAT, I'll check that. About the "adware" and "spybot" - I once heard that these programs are spies themselves. Isn't that true ? Thanks again, Tal. PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml