WHEW!!!! Boot 'n' Nuke did the trick! Ok I did a DoD wipe (3pass) and formatted it to Fat32 (I can't get NTFS to work with my single drive setup and a clean install of XP while booting from the CD). I loaded 98se, then re-wrote over the system folder with XP, and- success. Now why does my 80G HDD only show about 75G when I select which partition to install to? Is this the DOS for the Fat32?