Thanks very much for your suggestions.

I'm not sure that repartitioning the disk will solve the problem. I only have the 
same Western Digital setup tools that I did the original partitioning with, so the 
outcome is likely to be the same.

Also, I don't want to repartition the disk as one massive 80GB partition, for the 
reasons that I mentioned in my original post.

I don't have an XP disk. All I have is a "Restore" DVD that will re-install WinXP 
from an iso file on the DVD. So I can't use any XP tools to do the partitioning. 
In any case, I would rather trust to the Western Digital tools that are specific 
to my new disk.

Regarding MS-DOS Compatibility Mode, thanks for the link in your post. In light of 
the comments on that Microsoft page, I checked the Performance tab in System Properties. 
The Details button said that drive E: is using an MS-DOS compatibility (real mode) 
driver.

I'm not sure where this real mode driver is being loaded from. There is nothing in 
AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS that is new, nor in SYSTEM.INI or Win.INI. Any thoughts?








On Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8:36 am, Jacob6601 wrote:

>Since it's a new disc, take Keith's advice and just re-partition it. You should 
also 

>be able to use your xp disc to create FAT32 partitions.

>

>If you do want to look into the MS-DOS Compatibility Mode, you can start here:

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130179/EN-US/

>

>NOTE: If I remember correctly, the first sector used by logical drive E: may be 
causing 

>this. Shrink or enlarge D: by a gig if you still have the problem after FDISK. 

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