Thanks. rik, where did you find that information you quote about establishing automated an system reovery. I would like to do that once I get my current problem corrected. That won't help me much at the moment though because I've never created an ASR and my problem is NOW.

But I couldn't find it anywhere in XP's Help and Support, nor did I find it (what you included in your reply) in any of the online MS references (articles) to which Help and Support sent me. And if it's somewhere in my home edition XP, I don't know where to look.

FYI Only. My computer came back from the repair shop and it was working there. But since it has twice frozen (once with a blue screen) and I was able to get it going and working normally by shutting power off and then turning it on again. Only sometimes it would do weird things like produce a bios screen, a 'Windows Home Edition' screen and a completely black screen, the 3 of which alternated (1-2-3) 4-5 times--and then my computer suddenly booted and worked normally. At the moment it's working perfectly.

I don't feel knowledgeable enough to try and repair it at all. Guess I'll try walking into repair places and ask them if they can fix it and hope I find someone who says confidently: "Yeah, I can probably fix that!"