Thanks Nicolae and Rick for the tips about ME and XP needing separate partitions. I reformatted the drive into 2 partitions, then threw ME on first. When that had settled down, I added XP and it went pretty well. Only glitch was that I have a new Gigabyte 7VXP mobo, and WinXP didn't like the drive being connected to one of the RAID\ATA ports (this mobo has, in effect, 4 IDE ports). In the finish I had to connect the drive ribbon to IDE0 before it would finish the XP install. Once XP was installed, however, it was happy enough to be reconnected back to the RAID\ATA port. Ian Porter Computer Guys Inc. Arrowtown New Zealand [log in to unmask] Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com