Quote Originally Posted by Wazz View Post
Dumb question but you are booting from the XP disk right? Also, make sure you format both HP partitions (Recovery and Vista) if you can get that far (when you say it goes to start XP off the install disk do you mean right away or after the disk check, file copy, etc.?).
No such thing as a dumb question.....

Yes, I am booting from the xp disk. Did not try formatting the recovery partition... that one never crossed my mind. Will have to try that. It loads all the files then says "Starting Windows for the first time, then BSODs. Will let you know if the partition thing works.

Thanks for your help.