My problem predates Paulmor's problem. I cant get XP to install on my second hard drive. It tells me that it cant be installed on that drive during the XP installer "Blue menu" section. Did you have to do anything special to make it install on your second hard drive Paulmor? I'm dual booting on my Laptop with absolutely nooooo problems...Same drive, same partition, it's very smooth. I was really surprised how easy it was. Silent Z