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Actually Morriswingate, I think I will fdisk and then format this time, but no; it wasn't that I had formatted with NTFS for XP. I had two separate 15Gb Hdds that the original C:\ drive had Win98 se on it and then I formatted a disk D:\ fat32 and put XP home edition on it. But I have been made aware that even in this scenario that XP holds separate a portion of diskspace on the active partition (C:\) to write recovery files. Aparently a simple format does not entirely wipe a disk as the warning just before a format says that it will. Thanks for the replys and I will post my luck or....lack thereof, back here.