[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks so much, FRiend! I will in due time, I'm sure. The computer guys told
me my screwy hard drive may have a virus that was the cause of my problems,
so I'm proceding carefully so as NOT to contaminate my new hard drive.
Wish sometimes I was a real technical computer kinda guy, lol!
I can get around the computer stuff, 'cept when it comes to down and
dirty technical kinda stuff. :O(

[dennisw]

Best of luck with the bad disc blues.

[dennisw]

Ask someone to confirm this  ......

1. Make old hard drive the slave and copy over what you need from it. Copy the minimum you need. Do this in one session and get it all over with. 
2. Then to completely "cleanse" your old drive write zeros to it. Also known as low level reformat. Major manufacturers usually include this utility in their installation floppy disc and said disk is usually available for download too. I have done such reformats. Will take 2-3 hours if disc is 60 gigabytes.