yesterday I went and bought another hard drive, 40GB Western Digital, and set it up as a slave HD, secondary to the one I have already. Overall, it didn't work. My friend and I worked w/it some and no luck. Info: the West.Dig is set up for slave, the other HD (Maxtor? 20GB) is set up for master, it turns on, starts to boot, I have a username/pass on there, put it in or not, once past that it freezes. It starts to boot up for the desktop, then freezes after 1-3 seconds. The computer recognizes the W.D. HD, and the Maxtor, as master/slave setup. It will boot up in Safe Mode just fine, and recognize both HDs under "my computer". Showing appropriate size for each. I have (2)256MB, (1)128MB SDRAM PNY and ME OS so now I'm stuck. any/all ideas would be very much appreciated, thank a lot

See if the memory cache size patch in Windows ME Fixes to the System.ini file solves the problem. Try booting from a Windows ME boot diskette and running FDISK and then FORMAT on the second drive and see it that helps.

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Found the problem. I tried it again tonight and unplugged my mouse, USB, and took out the new RAM (256MB, 133) I had put in. It started up fine. So I plugged the mouse back in and restarted it via "Start" menu, worked fine. Shut it off, put the new mem in, and restarted. Froze up. I think the new 256MB mem is bad. Unless someone states/thinks otherwise, I'm going to take it back. Thanks for the help!