What are you symptoms? I had trouble with XP on my new computer at work. SATA disk, though. I first installed XP on one of two partitions. But it broke when I installed motherboard drivers. Then it refused to install on a partition at all - it would copy files and then simply get stuck around 60%, so I had to make whole disk one partition. And it still went to hell with mobo drivers. Finally, a colleague suggested adding drivers from Windows themselves instead of using the mobo CD launcher. That installation went fine and I simply split the drive into two partitions later with Acronis Disk Director. Now everything is fine. AS, that looks great. Imagine, running Bryce and three instances of Lightning on one computer. :-) I could buy a decent car with that money...

-- erlik