Hi, Best thing to do is have all your kit, (or as much as will fit) plugged into the machine when you install it, (on NTFS, anything else is a waste of time) You're also advised against "upgrading" to NTFS from FAT32 as the upgrade app will create a riddiculously small cluster size... If you have all your kit installed XP will add what drivers it has, and ask you to got to MS to download new ones for the hardware it can't identify. Using uncertified drivers with XP is a bad idea as it can crash if you do. I installed poser after a clean re-install and I've had no problems, but I too downloaded the latest drivers from HP for my laptop. (a bad idea in some respects as it recked my DVD player software, the "upgrade" version sucks :) later jb