Thanks loads! Everybody who is involved/uses linux seems to be really nice! I got 3 responces in less than an hour! Wow! I would be waiting at least 3-5 days with microsoft. But im still too nervous to use it. Dont know why. Its just when i knackered the old harddrive me mum went up the wall cus her Manchester Business School Masters MBA work (or something) was on it. And she had been saving her work for it on it for 3 years. She only had one year to go. Luckilly she had already printed some of it out. But... was I in trouble. She made me sit by the PC and try to fix it for hours, even though it was plain to see that the entire harddrive was currupt. So... I then used knoppix to try and recover her files. I managed to retreive some of my doctor who episodes from an intact partition and Roller coaster tycoon 2, but..... couldnt get anything off the C partition which was the currupt one. So I borrowed a spair 4gig hd from my uncle, installed XP onto it and (again) couldnt seem to get anything off it. So.... I downloaded a tool from the internet that lets you rawly see the harddrive in hexidecimal values and small text strings. I spent hours going through a 17gig harddrive for individual email addresses of my mums freinds/contacts (i was never going to be able to recover entire files such as docs or other such office files.) I found only about 10 addresses. . So.... thats my life story and why im too scared to do anything now. I think forget about OS's and stick to php for now!

Thanks Loads!

Chris!!!