Thanks for your advise Chris, after many adventures I was able to get rid of the error message and got Puppy installed again.

Liam

I just have the 1 partition. I don't have a problem with reformatting the drive again, so what is DBan and how do I use it?

Thanks for replying!

Liam

This sounds like an incomplete installation of some sort. I can't see how running Puppy from a live CD should do this. Did this persist after a power cycle? Thanks for answering, Dennis; Yes it did. There was no installation; I took the CD out of the drive and tried to boot from the hard drive as u...