A couple of days ago, I did a complete Restore of my laptop (I am using my sons laptop to send this message) Everything went absolutely fine. My internet was connected perfectly, I reinstalled all My Documents and Pictures as well as my Family Tree data. All was well for a couple of days. Last night I was repositioning photos in My Pictures, when my battery expired and my system went into hibernation. This was no problem to me and I closed the lid down. However, this morning, when swithching on the laptop, a BLACK screen appeared with the messsage:- """""The system could not be restarted from its previous location due to a read failure. Delete restoration date and proceed to system boot menu.""""""" What does that mean and can someone please tell me what to do next??? I am a computer novice and desparately need help. regards Rita Barfield _________________________________________________________________ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http://www.msnpasstheparcel.com