Thanks for responding guys, I didn't mention it, but I had tried the C key trick before I tried the other two combinations, it didn't work either. On the face of it, Fred's suggestion about the PRAM battery appears to be a good starting point. I removed it and it is dead as a door nail. I am aware that you can't just reinstall the OS to get rid of all the data. I have a few drive "wiping" tricks I was going to employ. Yea, if you have the time and money, "Vee have vays of making you talk," can be done. I was going for the 99% rule. But, I've got to get this thing to boot from the CD first. BTW it was my understanding that a large majority of those, "look what we found on this drive," articles and warnings were based on cases where somebody just unplugged a drive and pitched it or sold it. All the "guru" had to do was plug it up and turn it on.
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