[sole_fish]

I'm with you, evilpaintball1 . The flaming was unnecessary. I have been a computer user since 1986. 'Optomizing' can help, but not in most situations. Real 'gamers' (those who have around 100 unfinished games slammed onto a hard-drive at one time) run into problems that you can either troubleshoot for 2 days, or format and get it over with in 2 hours. We know how to backup critical information before format, and have a gameplan to get our system up and running quickly. Sorry to hear about your lost disc. I'm a bit compulsive and make back-ups of EVERYTHING i've got. Just in case. Good luck.