First of all, refer to my previous entry, and get the idea of what happened: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/144577.html Now, here are updates. Forgive me if I sound cranky and frustrated, because I am. (Copied from forums on Neowin.net) UPDATE 1: I decided to turn around and do a full reformat, and use FAT32 instead of NTFS. I installed Windows 98, just to see if I would have the same problems. Windows 98 worked pretty well, but it did crash several times with a black screen that said something among the lines of: "Cannot read/write from Drive C:" which was basically the same as the XP error message. I did a full Scandisk surface scan, which came up with absolutely no bad sectors on both drives (I have two drives on one hard drive, one for the OS and another for my data), and I ran HP's hard drive diagonstics, which came up as "Pass." In addition, I did a SMART full read-test with HD Workbench, which had no errors. Why is it that, my hard drives aren't showing errors from various programs, yet that dreaded "KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR" BSOD keeps appearing? Oh, well, I'm (un)happily on hold with HP's (not so) wonderful tech support. Wish me luck. But, PLEASE give me ideas or suggestions if you can, this is really important. Oh, and I did a MEMTEST, no errors. UPDATE 2: I'm finally on the phone with HP. After a HOUR of being on hold, I'm finally on the phone with a representative. I hate to say this, but this particular one is a moron. First of all, I installed Windows 98 to experiment and see if the same problem would reproduce, right? Nothing wrong with that. Windows 98 worked just fine on my laptop (allebit having a lack of drivers). Well, this representative BLAMED Windows 98, saying Windows 98 was the cause of the problem. Huh? How can it be? BEFORE I installed Windows 98, the same problem was occuring. That's dumb. Secondly, he kept asking me if I did a complete reformat, which, indeed I did (and I think I repeated myself only six times) and despite my explanation of the problem, he blamed it on a faulty XP install. How? I reformatted and reinstalled XP 2 times, for god's sake! How can HP's customer service be rated #1 is something I'll never understand. I think I need ideas from you, the true intellecuals, not those money-suckering scumbags at HP. -Andy Oh, and he continously called me "the customer." Hello? I have a name: it's Andrew, which didn't seem to get through him after 2 (dare I say) polite requests to call me by my name. The end. Any ideas?

Maybe try the win98se startup disc and fdisk and reformat again. Then run your XP disc. I once had to run zeros on my whole hard drive and then did the above and it worked for me. Hope that helps. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks