This seems to be an interesting problem that I'm having....and, it pertains to formating, reinstalling, etc. I have a hard drive that I've formatted (after moving everything to a second drive). I want to reinstall a fresh system on this 4G drive, Win98 or WinME. Since I have formatted, I am unable to get to a place to install system software. I'm getting a message saying "the following file is corrupt of missing" or something like that, and it is looking for C:\Windows\system'\dblbuff..... I've tried boot discs, booting the other drive, etc...I'm unable to load a "clean" system on the original, formatted C:drive...In fact, I am unable to fdisk the drive because it says there's no space available...I am really getting confused. I did something similar on my daughter's computer with no problems. this computer is a 366mhz Gateway (sorry about that!) tia.... ==== Marshall Fortescue ==== > Marshall Fortescue > Direct 603.245.2382 > SDN 8-475-2382 > Pager 888.394.6547 or > mailto:[log in to unmask] > PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>