Pop - I have had a couple of drive failures with Maxtor 'DiamondMax' drives, the last went back to supplier and was replaced. The first just outside warranty. Hope you have more luck!

I think daughter will need to re-install all her stuff - progs etc unless you can cheat and copy docs and settings etc from the old drive - if indeed ME has that? I am not familiar.

I've always found DiamondMax drives to be reliable and quiet. In my experience you shouldn't have any problems.

Is it ATA or SATA??
Only snag may be, if its SATA dont forget to have the driver ready to slip in the floppy drive when it gets to the part about loading 3rd party disk drivers :)

Not SATA, although i thought about it!. But as my said thoughts are at max I decided that she can stay on the slow line and not the express line.

BOAC. You are right. But as I am going to load XP Pro I am also putting in MS Office and what she had is lost. All other progs can go on as and when. Certainly, not until I have installed a firewall and AVG. That's what caused the problem I think - she didn't have ANY :eek:

Still a tad concerned that a floppy doesn't come with HDD - OEM! But I recall doing a cold startup with the XP disk in the CD-ROM.

Thanks again fellas.

PPP