What a weekend! A friend rang me up yesterday to say their pc had crashed. On further investigation the entire windows\systems\iosubsys directory was missing. Took the pc home to fix. Ran scandisk and it found 35000 files with corrupt links and only 1 copy of the FAT on disk. Ran scandisk on it and it wiped out the windows directory and program files directory….I really hope he didn’t have any data in those directories as I know he didn’t have a backup! Fortunately my documents is ok and I’ve copied that off onto another disk. The machine is a Siemens Fujistu – the model that had loads of hard disk problems, so the disk will probably get returned in an RMA. In the meantime I’m having to copy the files across onto another from dos, a directory at a time and make a note of what directories did or didn’t copy. Then its a reinstall using the system disk and then install all the applications……AND someone else wants me to setup and configure their brand new pc this weekend too!