There are two problems I have encountered. 1. I am not seeing the windows logon box when NT starts. No errors occur and the cursor arrow does appear, but no logon. This is not a timeout issue because I have left the machine in this state overnight. 2. Attempting to gain access to the machine to try to address problem 1 (by as yet undetermined method) I installed a second copy of windows NT in a separate folder on the same drive. Now the disk layout is as follows C: NTFS 15M D: NTFS 1026M E: NTFS volume set comprised of 3 partitions (2G 4G and 21G) The new installation sees the first two partitions as NTFS but sees the last 3 partitions as raw. I tried using ftedit.exe from the NT resource kit which allows it to see the volume set but not the filesystem. How can I get the second NT installation to access drive E as NTFS? System: Compaq EVO laptop 256M memory Note: Booting the original install with the /sos flag shows that chkdsk is run on C,D & E and all are seen as NTFS...for whatever that is worth Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Martin