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LOL naw I formatted it because it's now used as a backup. After I did all this everything is good now. Thanks again Will definately be using this forum to find info on future problems that might occur. Thanks again! Cheers and Happy Holidays!!

Yeah I have a 2nd hard drive hooked up with a Windows XP Install on it. That could be what's causing the error I guess but it's not set up as a boot device. The exact info that shows up is: Windows XP Pro USB Windows (default) The curser automatically chooses the last one so I have to manually select Windows XP Pro. ***EDIT*** I'm just in the process of backing up the old drive. I will then format the drive and use it solely as a backup and hopefully that removes the issues.

Okay but the Default option gives me a hal.dll error so I always have to manually select the 1st option in the list. Would it work if I just copied the XP Pro startup info into Default=? Thanks again

Definately will in the future . Also it seems that on bootup its not just 2 choices but 3. The 3rd one is Windows XP (default)...exactly like that. And it's always the one highlighted (hence default I guess). But oddly enough that option locks up windows start up and restarts the system. Here is what my boot.ini looks like in case there is something in here that could be wrong: [Boot Loader] timeout=30 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS /usepmtimer [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="USB Repair NOT to Start Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect Thanks again!

Oddly enough all I did was unplug the front usb and the usb card reader and the other SATA drive and voila. It loaded into the "Setup is restarting" and loaded right into the GUI mode. About 5 minutes later windows was installed and running!!! Thanks so much guys!!! Didn't think it was such a little mistake that would cause this, but I learn something new every day. One issue, well not so much an issue, just an annoyance is when windows boots up it gives me an option to load Windows XP or to load USB Windows XP (not for using, just install) or something along those lines. Any way to knock off the USB one so it just auto loads into Windows XP? Again thanks guys for your help!!

Where/how do I open that on the drive? From the working vista or the non working new one. I don't have access to the cmd prompt on the new machine...I'll try unplugging the devices from the motherboard.. Thanks for your replies.. Sorry if I sounded ignorant about the internal parts.