Thanks Mindonstrike, Yes I can see the link at the bottom of the "build database" menu but it stops at database/ I think its just because thier isn't enough room to see the rest of the link. Your right it must be there because I'm able to play from my original external Hard Drive but when I connect the backup It creates an error report to send to microsoft (I'm sure you have seen this before when other progams experience problems) and says it must shutdown. The only thing that I feel it could be is that when I'm copying over the contents of my current HD something goes wrong causing it to fail. When I do a "build database" it indicates "successful backup ....." not sure of rest. But, it doesn't say what files are contained as mentioned by MTU support. I'm not sure if that is the problem but when I reconnect my current HD and "build database" I receive the same message and that works fine. The second HD is a 160 seagate I didn't format I just plugged in and the laptop excepted it and i copied over from F drive to E drive. I tried to delete and retry but still didn't work and windows ran a check on it because it said there was a bad sector and that it had corrected it. I hope I'm not doing anything to ruin the new HD.
Could the problem be that I haven't imported anything directly from hoster to the new HD as I did with the original in order to setup the proper link? Just a thought
I do want to thank everyone who is trying to help me. Your vast knowledge is truly appreciative and Hoster is the greatest program out there. In fact I just got two of my friends to buy the program for home use
thanks, bob