Pinkuuu!! uffff !! Kasai-ko nabhaako Computer.. :P San got married and your computer got a heart-attack? :P Shree5 le Keep rolling, Keep rolling gardai gardai yaha pani taani lyaao!! :D Hmm, The problem with your computer sounds more like a hardware problem hau!!! Could be an IDE cable. Could be your Cd-rom failure. So why don't you spend couple of bucks, buy a brand new cable, open your computer, take out all the IDE cables from the drives and the motherboard, unplug the power (hope you will disconnect the power first :P), and then use the new cable to connect just the harddrive to the motherboard, plug the power to the harddrive, turn the power on :P and then, and then, and then rebootie it? :O Coz I've been there and I've done exactly that, and luckily, that was the first thing I did, and IDE Cable was the main culprit. And another time I was not that lucky when my Ram got busted :p and me and my friend had to literally bang our head against the wall for about a week, trying to figure out the problem with Xp, when the problem was with one of the Ram memories, and that was the last thing we checked. :D