I had a bit of fun and thought I would share it. I needed to move the os's I had on two 20 gig drives to a single 120gig drive. ME has been great for my digital camera work and it has years of Outlook on it I don't want to negate. XP is great for most games which is the reason I got into computers in the first place [that and doing invoices when I worked construction]. Ghosting the OS's to a new drive was not as easy as I first thought. But I knew I could work thru it. (1)20gig drive C: 100meg E: logical in extended partition containing ME. (2)20gig drive D: 20gig XPpro Using Partition Magic 6.0 and Ghost Personal Edition. I figured I could Ghost the ME drive and then do partition to partition for the XP partition. I tried a couple of variants of this but I keep coming into the same problem. D: was ME and E: was XP. This was opposite of what they were installed as. To solve this issue I used PM from a boot diskette to convert the XP primary into a logical partition. Once complete I was able to boot into ME. I checked drive letters using Fdisk and they were correct. But I could not boot into XP. Looked at the boot.ini and had to change the partition number from (2) to (3) and then I booted fine. Since I wanted the 80gig of storage space left available for both OS's I had to go into XP to create the partition. ME and Fdisk could not see or do it. I created a 80+gig partition but did NOT format it. XP/W2K can only do 32gig as fat32. I don't need ntfs at home. I have a bios password to keep my family [they have their own] out of my system. I switched back to ME and formatted the drive. If this had not worked I would have converted the extended partition to a primary and gone down that path with Ghost. The extended partition added a bit of difficulty to the endeavor. I am happy to say it all worked out in the end.

Nothing like seeing ingenuity rewarded with real results, huh?