Good morning Venkat and thank you for your response. To answer your question, I simply powered up the computer one morning and it was like this. Don't recall what I was running the night before, but almost positive it was nothing more than the internet (IE) and I always shutdown using the "turn off" option in the Start Menu. I hope this helps, as I am still at a loss. Thanks again! Timothous Venkat Viswanathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Tim Seaton's post (clipped) <<<< My PC has completely crashed and is no longer recognizing the operating system (Windows XP Home).>>>> it will help if you can give an idea as to how it "crashed". what I mean is did it do so one fine morning when you powered up/ while running any programs/ games/ was the system moved around somewhat prior to the crash/do you recollect the last program or whatever you were running prior to the crash/ was it shut down for the day ? sometimes one gets clues from these. good luck----Venkat Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml