SuperDave, I appreciate your time you've taken in trying to help me. I've been looking through my many many notes about this computer and what I was learning from various sources, and I am thinking I'm not up for the task. It's overwhelming, and will probally be better for me to just replace the hard drives involved if that"s possible. What I mean, is the memory and motherboard and CPU also infected? In your opinion, (which I do hold in esteem).I have your forum in my bookmarks and am certain to need help again in the future. But I'm going to back out of this paticular problem as it's beyond me. Thank you however for being willing to give me a chance at it.