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Ahhh, Ian Dury, Rest in peace mate Cracking song!!

Bruce Dickenson and Jethro Tull at Canterbury Cathedral

Seasick Steve, "Cant teach an old dog new tricks" with a little help from John Paul Jones

The Old Grey Whistle Test 40th Anniversary CD Set. Loads of 70's 80's stuff http://www.bobharris.org/pages/default.asp

Looks like it to me. I think that this thread shows what is happening.

Am I right in thinking that you have one hard drive partitioned into logical drives? If yes then what is happening to one logical drive is happening to all the logical drives because the PHYSICAL drive is breaking down (Knackered bearings causing wobble resulting in the heads hitting the surface?) As Loblo is saying, time to back up and get a new drive fitted

The only thing that springs to mind is do a scandisk in DOS with a surface scan to eliminate the possibility of the disk in the throes of going "belly up" Best of luck Tony

Just bought Jeff Beck's "Rock 'n' Roll Party" Top quality 50's Rock and Roll with Imelda May helping out on voice. This is his tribute to Les Paul

Myself, I use CCleaner and something I've used from my Win98 days, "Easycleaner". Easycleaner is not quite as rigorous as CrapCleaner but does a good job for me. Right click and run as Administrator. Look at registry and unnecessary files I've not looked at Win7 as I've not had problems with a full HD but XP had a load of leftovers( Uninstall) from updates which (looking at dates) which can be deleted if your machine is stable.

My machine Processor Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 @1.8GHz 4.7 Memory 4GB 4.7 Graphics ATI Radeon HD2400 series 3.7 Gaming 1503 MB total available graphics memory 5.4 Primary HD 84 GB free (106 GB total) 5.9 Graphics was 3.5 then I used "Autotune" in the Catalyst driver. Hard drives are IDE Motherboard is a Biostar P4M90-M7A and running Win7 Ultimate 32bit I've gone for performance over aesthetics in Win7's settings Cheers Tony

I've currently got an AC/DC cd in my car from the days before Bon Scott died. "Whole Lotta Rosie" is getting plenty of hammer. Of interest there is a track called "Problem Child" Cant remember the title of the cd and I cant be bothered to nip out to the car, its too cold!!

Tripredacus, Foriegner, Jukebox Hero. Excellent Dencorso, I never knew The Animals did "Paint it Black" The Rolling Stones did it As for me, I've just bought Black Sabbath's Greatest Hits (I think) which reintroduced me to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" which I bought when the album came out http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4585236/12274325

I forgot, my old Amstrad PC1512 upgraded to 640k and 30 meg hard drive running MSDOS 3.2. OK I've not used it for a couple of years. My wife, Lucy aka M0LUY has still got her old Beeb (Acorn BBC B, twin 5.25 floppys, sideways rom board and shadow ram)

Lone Crusader, you're not the only one. Every time in the last couple of days I've had to log in every time look at the site. Im using XP sp3 with Firefox 3.6

Do you have a boot floppy? Did you reformat the drive? You might need to use Fdisk (from the floppy) fdisk/mbr This will fix the boot sector of the hard drive You may need to use fdisk to remove the partition off the hard drive and re partition again, that way your hard drive SHOULD be clean. But for starters boot the machine from the boot floppy and then "format c:/s" then reload the CD You may have a damaged CD???

Rory Gallagher "Big Guns" The live version of "Bullfrog Blues" nothing short of brilliant!!

JedMeister Thanks alot mate, my KDE is back up and running Cheers Tony

Is there any way to find my password to my Kubuntu 9.10 setup without reinstalling? Cheers in advance which ever way Tony Bloody senior moments!!

A question, I think I know the answer but just to confirm. My wife is planning to buy a laptop from a national retail chain with Win 7 on board. The question is can she load Linux on to create a dual boot machine? Im sure the answer is "Yes" Is it better to run Linux as a virtual machine within Win 7?

komandos59 You said your hard disk is full. With all the lockups and crashes I think most of what is on your hard drive is chkdsk files. Use the disk cleanup to get rid of the temporary files and chkdsk files and then follow up with ccleaner (Crap cleaner) This will give the swap file room to do its thing. Hope this helps Tony PS if it still misbehaves then it could well be hardware. Oops I didnt notice 64 bit OS, but you still need free disk space.

I have Win98 SE2ME which since I got a new Mobo 18 months ago is used for maintaining my XP setup. I wont use NTFS because I have no use for it and besides, XP's defragger is PAINFULLY slow

Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood Seasick Steve - Started out with nothing and still got most of it left

I wonder if the Problemchyld was on about a setting on the right click on "My Computer" Im trying to remember this without kicking out of XP and into 98. There is a setting and I think its some sort of caching and "Server" gives more to the caching than Workstation"

Neil Young, "Trans" Released in '82 he out-synthed the synth bands at the time IMHO

I just hope your son doesn't have to be "vlited" when he gets older