I've heard from many people that ME is junk ... but when my son put in the USB port for me he didn't think I had enough room for another hard drive, he said there was no slot available, that it would more have to hang there ... If I find out I have to change anything else to use XP , maybe I will search around for a tower & have my good 'guts' put into the tower & have another hard drive & keep the ME program on it for that. Can you access the programs on it or does that take other steps? I don't quite understand , if you can't boot from it, is it still usable? & for what reason would you keep it in there ? thanks, Faythe I had ME - can't help with the install questions - but I agree with the tech support! I am sooooo glad I ditched my ME system - I have xp home - it is amazing. with ME I had to re-boot several times/day and things were always freezing or not working - and if you noticed, microsoft never put out fixes for them - they came out with a new system.... When we put XP on here, I bought a new hard drive - larger. and put a clean install of xp on here. I have my ME drive still - hooked up, but I can't boot to it. I was able to get to stored files on there though, like my graphics etc. Cris To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk