Jeannine

XP is far less tolerant of hardware faults than ever Win 9x/ME ever was..
the fact that the drive makes it through chkdsk is not indicative of the
drive being perfectly healthy..

On the basis that it is definitely not full or even close, there could well
be a problem with the drive.. try this little utility.. download and run
it.. http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php.. it is useful on two counts.. it
gives an indication of case, cpu and hard drive temperatures.. it also has a
facility to check the S.M.A.R.T status of your drive..

So, run the program and then click on SMART.. select the drive and then look
at the lower left scale.. is it full of dots, or do they only make it part
way across?.. the more the better..

Do you have other problems too, like freezing or programs crashing out?..
does 'Help and Support' work ok?

You might also want to try running SFC.. to do this, place your XP CD in the
CD drive (press shift after closing the drawer, and hold it until the CD
light quits flashing)

Now go to START - RUN and type <sfc /scannow> without the parentheses.. this
will check and replace system files if they are missing or corrupted..

Return here and update us on your progress..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Jeannine" <jeannine@wfleague.org> wrote in message
news:epwrHFX6FHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I installed over a perfectly good working ME. (because there was certain
>software I wanted to install that required XP).
>