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I have reviewed everyone's posts and at this point i will say that i'm getting fed up with 7. so i'm scrapping it in favor of a custom/clean install. i think the prob was that i drug all of vista's baggage into 7 by upgrading. so right now i'm posting this message from a hewlett packard, and on my asus laptop i'm booted into a ubuntu live cd, busy copying all the files i need from the c drive onto an external terabyte drive. then i'm going to put in the 7 install cd and do a fresh install, free of vista's junk and my progs. i am wondering if that will solve my probs. its not just the fact that i'm unable to update thats bothering me, i've also experienced alot of slowdown ever since upgrading from vista to 7. i'm thinking that the issue could be that vista brought its baggage along with it. also, whenever i get to the ubuntu desktop, it tells me that there are probs with one of the harddrives and that one or both might be failing, although it still lets me access both of them. so i'm thinking that my laptop's internal hd is failing, slowly but surely. in any case, i guess i'll be spending at least part of my christmas repairing this piece of **** instead of relaxing. i should be done with all the major stuff by 6 am, then i'll take a break and put off the rest for a day or 2. i do have one more question though, i cant format the c drive while booted into windows, does anyone know the exact linux commands use to format c drive from within ubuntu? i ask this because i want to blast away each and every little bit of data that my previous 7 install has left behind before doing a clean install.that way i can have a hd that is completely free of any junk whatsoever, at least before the new install. i have also heard about a data wipe method developed by the american department of defense that is specially designed to format/wipe all free space from an hd to the point that any data is completely unrecoverable. does anyone know anything about this? well, where i'm at its about 30 minutes before midnight and i want everyone here to have a great christmas. thanks for any help, reply soon..................................