Hey all, I was getting ready to do a complete format andwanted to be sure i had everything formated so before i reboted with the restore CD i popped into a DOS prompt and did fdisk/MBR, it said for some reasonit hadnt been doneand i was like ok ill do it later or whatever, i put in the restore CD and shut down for a few minutes as i had done a million times before, smoked a ciggarette and when i came back i turned the computer on and it started the restore program and then it stopped and said it couldnt find my HD, i was like ok its done this before when i was formatting from an NTFS OS and i was like ok last time i fixed it by using a regular Windows 98 SE CD and so i booted with that, it also said it couldnt find my Hard Drive and so i tried Windows 2,000 pro and the same thing happened, so i sat for a second thinking and tthought, ok ill try linux, so i popped in the suse linux 8.1 professional DVD and installed it no probs (thats how im online right now, but im still curiouse as to what that may have been, any help at all id apprecikte, i should be on more tommorow because the service tech is comin here tommorow to check on everything and make sure everything is working ok, so i hope to see you all tommorow and thanks in advance if anyone can help me