I deleted this backup (!!!), and tried the CD in my second CD/DVD drive (Slave on IDE 1), but I then pressed F9 by mistake during POST instead of waiting for the 'Run From Disk' prompt. I deleted the backup I'd just made (loopy, but I was incensed by now!) using the REMOVE option of Xpress Recovery2, and tried again with all the drives re-attached, BUT KEEPING CLEAR OF 'SLAVE ON IDE 0'. I moved the CD/DVD's cable over to another Sata port (MASTER on IDE 2 it turned out) and re-tried the backup. The SATA HD was showing as MASTER on IDE 0. I went into the bios and found the SATA CD/DVD drive was showing as SLAVE on IDE 0. What was different? We used an IDE CD/DVD RW on his system, with a 160GB Sata HD.

I know it CAN work, as I built a system for my stepson and that worked first time. This is no longer silly, I thought, Just plain stupid. I even unplugged my card-reader from it's USB port, and tried again. I disconnected my second HD (another 500GB) and my second CD/DVD drive. Not enough space on the HD was just silly, so I started to look elsewhere. With the 200GB Data partition I had set up, I was using 240GB which left 225GB unallocated. Like most people getting the same message, this confused me, as I was using a 500GB drive, but only 40GB was being utilised as the system disk, as I have found this is plenty. It failed to run, saying there was not enough room on the HD. When I was happy, I tried running XPress Recovery2. I installed all the programs I usually load from scratch, and any useful new ones I found on the internet. I installed Windows XP SP2, loaded all required motherboard drivers, and performed any and all Windows Updates. I think I have the solution to the problem of using Xpress Recovery2 on Gigabyte motherboards.

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