Hello, I have a dual-boot system (WindowsXP home & Linux), with LILO as bootloader. After adding a SATA drive to the system, LILO ended the boot process with an error message: LILO - Timestamp mismatch I learned from the web that this is due to a bug in LILO: should use GRUB. So I installed GRUB, and sure enough, during bootup, GRUB presented the customary boot list. I decided to start with WindowsXP - and all hell broke loose: blue screen, scrolling of tens of pages with file names, which somehow were altered, restored, etc., etc. This lasted for a couple of minutes. After this, Windows was unable to boot properly: it hung in the blue Welcome screen, showing nothing else, and not responding any more. Had to restore the C: partition from a backup (...). Any clue to what happened here, as well as suggestions to do it right next time, are greatly appreciated, Rob

Couldn't tell you precisely what happened, possibly bad sectors or some files got overwritten and corrupted or truncated but having that handy backup was a smart thing to do. ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one