hey people,

nihil, Relyt, foxyloxley, front2back.

got me drive back, "my precious"

the tests run:

1) ewido security
2) a-sequared search
3) spybot-search and destroy
4) ad-ware removal
5) tune up utilities
6) mcafee virus scan
7) mcafee antispyware

all tests run in safe mode and restarted and ran the scans again (just to be sure).
then went to My Computer and...........there it was.

thanx all

now back to gamming.

bagggi