It’s something I’ve run accross and haven’t dealt with for at least a couple years. I’d tell you the exact cercumstances if I could. I think it was refusing to mount the partition mentioning something about the other drive was an XP operating system boot partition. Whatever it was, happened a couple times so I’ve learned to store favorites and outlook mail on a different ntfs partition to avoid having to restore from backups. I never store regular files to the boot partition, but some programs default to the boot partition, which I change them from after an install. Had I had the problem recently I’d better explain the problem. All I can say is I don’t know the exact steps that lead to the problem any longer. Maybe some patches have stopped the occurance. I haven’t had it happen in a couple years, because I prevented the need for my trying to read the old OS installed partition. I will post for you if I run accross the same thing again.