Ars Tribunus Militum 23y 1,665 Jul 30, 2004 #3 how did you get into that special partition on the disk? boot a cdrom or something? i'd also lean toward a floppy being in the drive, but xp home ...

I've got a good one for you. At some point, the 2k install on my machine decided that it really wants to have the CD in the drive before it will boot. Now, mind you, it does NOT boot from the CD ...