Hi Mosaddique. This is a follow up to my request for help on corrupted MBR on Toshiba laptop. I heard back from the Toshiba "specialists" saying that my motherboear was shot and it would cost me seven hundred bucks plus Canadian to fix it. Obviously I wasn't going to spent that much on a two or three year old laptop so I collected it from them. I couldn't see how a dead MB could keep sending me error messages. When I got in my car I tried the F12 tip you gave me and presto I was offered the boot sequence choice. When I got home I changed to CD boot and ran my recovery disks and more presto. I'm back in business with nothing lost except a bit of time. Fortunately I had an almost current back up. Moral....don't believe everything they tell you. many thanks for your BIG help Sincerely Stewart Bit of a wit....half to be precise.

Hi Stewart, I'm certain Mosaddique will be very pleased to hear this. Don't believe everything the technies tell you. For your entertainment, go here and read the many tales... Tech Nightmares - CNet Series for this week i_XpUser

Hey XpUser- the techie who speaks no english-ask for level 2-are we level 2? LOL!!

LOL...Dunno - maybe this is for Justin to tell us what we are :-) i_XpUser

Greetings XpUser. Thanks for your link. Unfortunately entertaining is not a word I would associate with those horror stories. I have memories of having existential conversations with offshore tech assists where no matter what one said to them they kept repeating the same response obviously reading from some crib sheet. I suspect Kafka wrote their scripts. just what you don't need when suffering from advanced computer neurosis. Keep the faith Stewart Bit of a wit....half to be precise.