[green777]

thanks for help, i tried the sfc but all that came up was a black screen for a few seconds, did the check disk and that came up ok,I am using xp but this was pre-installed.as for admin status i tried the swop user but no other users came up only my own, I have an advent computer and made a restart disk when bi first got it, but dont wan t to reset the whole lot back to default as i still have alot of stuff on my hard drive that i do not want to lose.

My other problem for the dell optiplex L60 the error i get up and stops windows loading is this unmountable boot volume with the following
xxx stop: ox82f56900,oxc0000006,ox00000000,ox00000000 this machine also has xp thanks again for all help