Thanks for the information. I will try both recommendations.

I currently have a Thinkpad 600 2645-51U that I have migrated to windows xp. During a move, I lost the IBM manual and cannot remember if it is possible to explode a screen size. Currently I use the laptop when I go on business trips. Well since some trips are so long, I installed Fallout and Fallout...

Forgot to mention a couple of things. I did upgrade the bios to the latest version and the final partitioning was two 20 gb's with FAT 32. Got me...Oh well it works. Thanks for responding.

I purchased a Samsung MP0402H (40gb) hard drive to put in my Thinkpad 600 (2645-51U). I then installed XP on the machine and it completed the initial installation (the one before it reboots the first time). There were no messages about writing while setting up. The harddrive was partitioned at 40GB ...