Congratulations.

Find my response and do as I showed you to create such a boot CD for the PC
without a floppy. There's also one for creating a boot CD if you have
burner with the proper software for burning an ISO image to CD. It may save
your butt someday.

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Jonny
<jimkunz@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> After failing to find any free utilities at download.com or on Google -
> I went to westerndigital.com and downloaded an app called Data
> Lifeguard for Windows. I installed the drive as a secondary on a
> working XP machine, installed the software and ran it with the option
> "Setup a new drive." A very basic wizard guided me through the
> partition and format process, and when I put the drive in the new
> machine as master, XP install worked as planned.
>
> Thank you to everyone who helped me here.
>
> Jim
>