roberth Wrote:umm...probably losing his bookmarks, as that's the one he gets to shout at me for :P

Tell him to sign up to del.icio.us and use the the plugin for firefox, then you shall never lose your bookmarks again.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I would've suggested using something like Autoruns to check for hijacks, but I'm not sure if those are loaded during Safe Mode or not (if they aren't, then this wouldn't be the problem).

You probably could've tried an "upgrade" before trying a reinstall, or reinstall to a separate partition.

Anyway, what's done is done :P

yeah, this is quicker than faffing about....something was wrong if my HDD showed as unpartitioned anyway, so just bugger it really