and the other day i restarted into admin. admin locked up after admin logon. when i restarted the computer i recieved two problems. a error during boot up saying that "cannot determine file system. and lost my mouse. i have tried replace the mouse drivers and usb drivers and hid drivers. i copied it from anouther similiar system. it almost worked but i still get a question mark on the hid(human interface device) and for the boot up problem, i went into safe mode command prompt and did sfc and also chkdsk /f(after restart) this did not fix the problem. I found very hard to extract files from cd or any where else. does anybody know what to do? I'am a technican but my w2k knowledge isn't enough yet....... any help is apreciated