hi.
yes i've tried with the boot disk for Wme; the cd for windows me and neither will install the cd drivers. I've swithed cd's to rule out the possibility of a bad install disk, and for the same reason i've tried a different hd, but it does the same. I have done fdisk to it, partitioned and activated the partition and i have formated that partition so all that dos stuff is ok, its at the moment of isnstalling the cdrom drivers (that come on the installation cd and flopy) that freezes
its driving me nuts
thanks for the thoughts