Robert McLellan wrote: >Only way I have found as I have been 'bit' several times is.....take out >extra drives first and reload. If you find anyway different let me know. >(Anyway that is faster anyway.) Cd drives shouldn't make any different, but >zips and USB drives will mess you up. > > From what i have been reading you are right. I do not understand how this happened. I had a blank (unpartition) 80gig drive on IDE 1 port and a cd-burner and a (fat32) 30gig drive on IDE 2 port. They say that Partition Magic 8 will change a system drive letter, but I do not have that. Pc -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.