[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Oh darnit...it turns out that my file system is *already* NTFS format as it was factory installed on the CPU that way.

Please tell me that with the $$ I spent on a complete new system [yesterday!], I can finally rest easy about my PC for a while...

[Paul Atreides]

Here is the mistake I made:

I had purchased software to uninstall programs and files from my computer. It was a non-MS program. It caused some features to glitch. I got out my XP OS disk and proceeded to reinstall XP. Well, after doing so, the computer would not recognize that my modem. I reinstalled it again, and selected it to switch the hard drive to NTFS format. I later learned that it could not be reversed, and that XP could not be uninstalled after the switchover. I took my computer to the place I had it built and had them reformat the hard drive and reinstall XP only with the FAT32 drive format.

[Sir_Ed]

"Please tell me that with the $$ I spent on a complete new system [yesterday!], I can finally rest easy about my PC for a while..."

ONLY if it was a Macintosh!! (Snicker, snicker!)

Ed