oh no
why is it never straight foward. so if installed xp to the clean drive would neither vista or xp work then ? i am getting a little fed up of buying windows cds, in the last 3 weeks i bought vista ultimate 64bit (no software works with it) then vista premium 32bit (lots more works than 64bit but still not enough) and know ive just bought xp pro to try and get the rest of my software to work, each one requiring a clean install, sometimes i do hate windows and there inherent impossibility to work with each other. Oh well. Thanks for the reply