I'd try a couple of things to add to everyone eles's suggestions, First; with the boot disk in drive A: I'd do a fdisk /mbr, if theres a virus in the memory it will find it when you do this, cause it won't be able to format the memory, then I'd do a low level format of the H/D (this will put the H/D back to factory specs, and its the only way to completely erase the H/D) (some BIOS offer this function) then the Fdisk and a format c:/s then boot with cd support, on the HD make a directory called WIN98SEF, go to the win98se cd, and copy the win98se directory, to the directory on your HD. Take out the cd, at the C romt Go back to the WIN98SEF dir. and run setup from there!

[This message has been edited by RedBeard (edited August 24, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by RedBeard (edited August 25, 2000).]