Thanks for the info Ya_know.. I re-installed Winxp (repair option) but didn't find any other versions of windows only XP.. After 30 mins, it all ended up the same only I kept geting an error of no paging file.. I tried setting it manually or letting the system doing it, but I gave up in the end and re-installed WinXP with a clean install (still no dual boot option) I was wondering if it's because WinME is on a slave drive instead of a master on a seperate ide channel??.. The I:\ is when I installed WinXP.. I always partition my h/d's into 4 (main, apps, games, personnal - c,d,e,f) then comes the cdrom and cdrw (g,h) and when I put my other drive back in I:\for WinMe (easy really ..lol) I know I can move all the drives around using Disk Managment but for what it is I'm not really bothered.. I might give the multi disk option a go, you never know..