It worked perfectly. Thanks. Re: the other problem I think it was because I did not partition the new hard drive that this laptop would not see it. However the drive did show up in Norton's Partition Manager so I partitioned it and I think it is ok now. It is a Seagate hard drive and although I installed the Seagate software it would not find the drive, or else I was just too tired and did not know how to use the Seagate software when it was installed on the C: drive and I was trying to use it, from the C: drive to partition and format this new hard drive that was attached to the laptop via a USB drive adapter. Thanks again. Frank C.