Affirmative, Dorry .

I'm versed in doing restore, and did click on the dates that appear as valid checkpoints on the 'puter. But, that doesn't work. It goes through the stages of appearing to do a restore, yet on reboot it states that it was unsuccessful in restoration.

Space allocated is fine, too.

The rest will have to be done by my friends; their in NV and I'm in CA.

Thank you for the suggestions, Dorry, and also for the link. I'll pass along the ideas you've offered and see what happens.