Afther the internet went down, I decided to reinstall windows someow. I reboot, pop in the xp pro cd and frmat the disc, it restarts and keeps on asking me to repeat the procedure over and over and over again. I used the Partition Magic cd boot disc and had a look at what's going on. Well this is what it said: "Error 110 " or something similar. Anyways my main 160 gb hd didn't show or any of the partition. When I went to properties the status or the label was "BAD".... ....I called compaq to send me out the recovery cds which will create the recovery partition and hopefully fix the problem. I need to know if the hard drive is messed up mentally or physically. Any help is appreciated. I am borec out of my mind, it's been 4 days without the pc already. The recovery cds will arrive Wednesday and I will pray that they will work.