reformatting isnt that big of deal......just the lose of files that you dont want to back up because may have something......
you know you can pick up a 200 gig from tiger direct fo under 100....300 gigs just a bit higher...they been running some good deals at tiger direct on line....
my system is a P4 3200....daul channel with four sticks of 256...which ads up to 1024....i can max it out to 4 gig... an IS7-E intel mother....80 gig master HD with my OP system and a 200 gig slave drive just a fileing cab....
so am I to beleive that at work your around a bunch of tech too...hehehe...get one of them to go to maxtor.com and get you a wipe image from there.....and burn it to cd useing nero vision express....and show you how to use it....basically you boot off of it the first time and use it to clean your drive completely ....then you you boot again and install your OP on fresh....clean drive...

Its called power max and they can find it at maxtor .com....but you need someone who knows how to use it to do it....i have only done it a couple times myself......but had someone on phone walking me through it....the tech from cyber power...which is where i got my little toy....and if your wanting a media system look there too....hehehe.....mainly gameing system though....
anyway love take care....as i am after one file and so far only gotr bad ones of it......Bewitchd....so far have brought done 4 differant files ....and still haven't got the real one yet...

just an old highway tramp
---BILL---