Thanks Cheers, But I bought this PC OS-less. The 40GB drive came unformatted. I have swapped drives in machines a LOT of times without problems, but they weren't XP OS's. It seems that XP has MAJOR issues because of the restore points and hardware configs. Unfortunately, my partitions were almost smoked from this transfer and even then The backup file would take WEEKS to complete when I get the partitions back (I have 110 GB of data on those partitions). Have you ever heard of this happening before? That is mainly why I posted this, was to see if anyone has heard of this before. I would like to think that I am very savvy with hardware and OS's, but this is something new to me. Thank you VERY much for the reply! Anything else you guys can submit would be awesome. : )