Thanks again for this info, I applied the LBA0 fix after the BSY fix, and all has come back, windows booted up wihtout any issues, thankyou so much! lcoughey - Business users and personal users have different values attached to their contents, I lost some photos and vinyl records which I have carefully ripped to mp3 and catalogued, meaing I would have wasted my personal time doing that, and the sentimental value of the pictures, which is hard to value. Would I rather stay at work and earn overtime for to pay for a drive recovery, or stay at home and rip my music again? I guess I could go to the same concert again and take more photos, or have my drive recovered..kind of a hard question to answer.