Stripping harddrives sucks

[Swimmer]

Just finished stripping and rebuilding my Gateway. The last few months it has been having problems which I failed to realize they were as serious as theywere. Computor failed to load a few days ago and could get it to show desktop. I had updated to XP home from ME. I reloaded the ME to get the basics back in the program and then reloaded the XP update again. That created further mayhem. It got so I couldn't even get to DOS command prompt to go to C:\ formating procedure. I finally figured that if I forced an XP professional program I have onto the harddrive it might abort the original programs. It did just that because the XP professional prompted me to do that. What a way to spend the last couple fo days. Didn't want to think about a new machine this time of year.