Well, I tried something else, I opened as "safe mode with networking"-it worked and gave me the desktop. I right clicked on aswMBR and it did not run. I checked in task mgr and it was not running. Then, out of curiosity, I restarted in just the "safe mode" and lo and behold, it opened OK and I got the desktop-again the aswMBR would not run. I checked and the aswMBR I have on the desktop IS and .exe file.
Just noitced that not all of the dskmgr was shown. H and J are not used. When I added a couple of ext. HD it labeled them I and J but left the other two.
I still had the flash drive with FRST64 on it-I can open it and it is there. I got the same results-none as in post #23-nothing will not open the flash drive..
I tried something else to try to get frst64 to run. When I was in the recovery mode and there was a tab to for "drivers" I put in my driver disc and installed drivers for the USB port -then went back to the cmd prompt and tried to access the flash drive where I had the frst64.ex located-still no luck.