Hi Daran, 1. Boot from the XP CD and do the repartitioning/formatting to *NTFS* from there. 2. You can do a clean install from the upgrade disk, if you have the Windows 98 original CD you will be asked to put this in the drive before the partitioning screen, no data is copied from it it just verifies the disk integrity, then eventually before formatting starts it asks for the XP disk again. Andrew. ** To leave the list, send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq