Im afraid this can get complicated so please KISS for me. On a Dell 8200, XP with sp1 + some updates, P4 2500, 700 meg Rambus, a WD 200G and one 120G BOTH WITH XP on the first partition. The second drive is strictly used for DVD backup. Both drives seem to operate fine except when trying to get into system restore, I get an error message: a problem was encountered and has to close. IT never opened! Also wants to send error to MS.
It seems to work ok for awhile then goes out to lunch.. 9 days ago I formatted and did a clean install, good for about 4 days and gone again. Have tried disconnecting second drive, making it hidden, making it inactive, disk repairs etc. Drive one has about 75G free space.
Could it be that XP can only be on 1 partition period? It seems this problem started when I put XP on second drive, but that was months ago and I didnt get into restore until a month ago, and as mentioned above it wont work now even when the second drive is disconnected. Any pointers?? TIA

It seems to work ok for awhile then goes out to lunch.. 9 days ago I formatted and did a clean install, good for about 4 days and gone again. Have tried disconnecting second drive, making it hidden, making it inactive, disk repairs etc. Drive one has about 75G free space.
Could it be that XP can only be on 1 partition period? It seems this problem started when I put XP on second drive, but that was months ago and I didnt get into restore until a month ago, and as mentioned above it wont work now even when the second drive is disconnected. Any pointers?? TIA