Windows XP is so well behaved at work, I just can't understand why I get all this hassle with everything that isn't made by Micro$oft.
Have you considered that it may actually be a hardware problem - memory or the hard drive seem the most likely candidates - XP is a lot more hungry of both than 98SE... Could also be the processor - if processor is faulty, then it won't be formatting the hard drive properly....
BTW - I recently had to reformat and reinstall my PC - found that a format from DOS did not actually resolve the problems and once I reinstalled everything, system was still having the same problems.
I therefore removed the partition and recreated it before reformmating - reinstallation was fine after that...
Guess its not under warranty still !!
Guess you should have gone back to the QL !!
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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