Originally posted by Big Booger
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Pay special attention the to diskpart RETAIN resolution as I think that will most likely be the key that unlocks the door to success.
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BB
Thanks Big Booger. Definetly "retain" is the key, as when these two drives were converted from BASIC to DYNAMIC when I installed W2k on them, everything worked fine. But now my conversion of them to the NTFS of XP is not setting the MBR correctly and as a result I cannot install XP on these drives. Still trying to get more info on the proper use of "retain" as info is sparse from MS.

Thanks again,
hdtvguy