RE; in general dont you hate it when that happens,i think the easiest out is startup from disk holding C key then look in the extras folders for drive setup,this will find your drive and initialize it for OS installation.if you need anything else just ask. best wishes on 1/22/03 10:52 AM, T. Brown / groucho at btgroucho at earthlink.net wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:39 AM, Patrick McGlynn wrote: > >> I wrote the other day I was reinstalling OS on my hard drive when my >> computer froze. the computer now starts up with the disk in and me >> holding down the c button and then with the extensions off. when it >> is on there is no sign of the hard drive and i have no destination >> disk to install the software