Quote Originally Posted by NooNoo
Did you format in the end?
Is this not resultant from that 'muddled drive letter buiness' ? (the one you found me a kb for another thread the other day ?)

Btw for SpazTAstic : you have realised that there's two versions of xp besides home & pro distinctions ? There's a 32 bit version (the normal one most folks are using) but also a 64 bit version ? - If its that though, I very much doubt you'd get the same symptoms with both machines