UPDATE I now have a fully functioning dual boot installation of XP and Vista with all current updates on my HP computer. It ain't perfect, but it will have to do as I am over all the hassles I have encountered. I am currently waiting for an external hard drive to finish scanning/formatting and I will clone the whole shebang over to it using Acronis True Image. I will also image backups of each OS to folders on a second internal drive for convenience. The external clone will be well cared for. Once those are done I will resume tweaking file locations and so on and when those are fully functioning I'll do a fresh clone and image of those. If problems crop up, so will the backups. I can't believe how long it is taking to scan and format that 250GB external drive. 45 minutes and not even half done yet. next will be software installations and email setups. Then the laptop gets it! Don --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------