Okay, OK! Forget the 500GB drive. I dug in my closet and found a new spare SATA 160GB drive .......... Off to get Office back running XPpro again.............. Bad news is that the old 160GB drive is NOT seen/recognized in POST by another duplicate PC. Bummer! If it were'nt for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all............... :) Duncan
-------------- Original message from Al Anger <128customi...@gmail.com>: -------------- > > FORC5 wrote: > > > with no partitions is a unformatted drive > > :-) > > Partitions (plural). I think it's safe, in this learned group, to assume > the debate is between a single and multiple partitions. > > But there is a nit picker in every crowd. :P Enjoy your collection of > nits. :-) > > -- > Al > "The Space Elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops > laughing" > -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke >