I will try to put the XP Pro on it tomorrow. I have to get ready for work. I'll let ya know what happends. Thanks to you and everyone else who has walked with me through this !!!!!

well looking at what u posted it seems like the only way out of your problems at present. Well any other problems then you know where to look for help man. good Luck

Raj

OK we'll be around to help, post us on if it fixes it or not and be sure to mark thread solved at the end - it helps other people in similar circumstances to sometime be able to see a completed sequence.

I honestly appreciate y'alls attention to my problem !!!! Thanks again for all advice given !!! I will try the recovery CD tomorrow.

Ive been really busy lately but youve been a gr8 sport to work with.see ya around
cheers for now

To my Brothers in arms,( Coolraj003, EMCCleveland, and Sittas87), I really appreciate ALL your unselfish help that you've sent my way !!!! I have taken a Windows XP Pro disc and successfully installed it on this troubled machine !! It took a couple attempts to get it to take but I am now installing all the Microsoft updates on it as I type . I hope one day to be able to help folks as you have helped me ! Thanks a million !!
If ya have any advice on how I can get to the level that y'all are at , please let me know !
Thanks again !
I'm learning all this stuff at home, in my spare time, and using it to help folks at the factory where I work, FREE, just as you have helped me !!!

Before you go much farther you might consider testing the hard drive using Seatools or the like, I'd hate for you to get everything up and going only to find the hard drive is failing. As for advice on how to get to where we are - make alot of mistakes on your own machines and then don't do them on other people's.

I have downloaded Seagate SeaTools and will run it today, thanks !
I do make many mistakes on my computers ! Thats how I got invoved with DaniWeb . I also work on folks computers at work for free, as a hobby, and hope one day to make a living at it!
I will post my results from the hard drive tests later today or tomorrow.
Thanks again !

well keep at it and you ll be where you wanna be mate. Just surf through the posts here on daniweb. a lot of things could be learnt from here man. I wish you all the best for the future.

Raj

I ran Seagate , Seatools for Windows. I ran 4 tests :
S.M.A.R.T Check, Short drive Self Test , Long Drive Self Test, and the Short Generic test. All 4 tests turned out to be perfect ! I think this drive will be ok ! Thanks again my Dani Web Brothers for all your help !
If any of you ever help in the " Motherboards, CPU and RAM, threads, I'd appreciate if ya looked at my thread over there that I've started and nobody has offered any help yet. Its located at http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post64...tml#post640860
Thanks again and I'll go ahead and close this thread, HAPPY !