On 9/21/05 1:31 PM, Jim Robertson wrote: > HOWEVER, when the boot process completed, > there was NOTHING on my Desktop except the icon of my boot drive (and there > was LOTS of random stuff there before). Are you logged in as you? Or did the force restart cause you to log in as a different user -- one with less material on the desktop? If you open a new window, and navigate to your username > desktop folder, is your data inside that folder? If so, you might simply need to restart again. Let us know. peace, Linda