thanks for all the replies and I apologize for being so late to reply myself, but no, it's a full install and I've tried the chkdsk /f & /r.....that's worked once before but not this time....to add insult to injury now my 3rd partition (ext3 strictly for storage) is mounting funny (my hard puppy...

One day I'm going to go through the init and shutdown scripts and convert everthing to ext3. i've been wanting to copy my whole puppy ext2 partition over to a clean ext3 partition, but i'm unsure what i'd have to change....since you mentioned it, could anyone give me a heads up? i'm such a n00b it'...

i'm running kde 3.5.7 in puppy 3.01, everything worked beautifully (full ntfs write support, etc.), then I made the mistake of hitting upgrade all in gslapt and I've slowly had to fix numerous things just to get puppy working again. I'm a n00b and have been learning linux via trial and error and the...