Actually translates to: And this: Actually translates to: It will be hard to know what has happened/is happening. jaclaz Well, I just thought about something else that may be the villain of the drama here... Readydriver Plus. I had installed it before, to use some drivers that vista said ixnay too, but it then broke down after a few weeks, for some reason, and borked my windows. ( maybe it was the boot-sector it borked, since it modifies how you boot??), I then reformated my drive and started out new, learning to never trust such an app again. However, even after reformat, the readydriver plus boot-selector, plus or vista, showed up at startup. I don't know why that is, and if it still worked, since I never tried it. But maybe, it's still somehow the erroneous corrupted element that's messing things up?? Also, when I ran chkdsk I didn't run it from a DOS-floppy I'm afraid... I ran it from a command-console off the Vista Install-disc. Could that affect chkdsk effectiveness, as compared to running it from a floppy? I'll be trying Seatools for sure, to check up on the disc. I was actually reading about it just prior to checking the thread. Also, I'm looking at EasyBCD, and it looks to be one heckuva' program. It appears to be able to easily remove boot-elements that are unwanted. What do you think lads? Btw... Can I run, Seatools, EasyBCD, and Chkdsk from one single USB-stick? I do have several functioning USB-sticks, but it would be neat to run 'em all on one single stick.