I couldn't load it on a FAT32 partition on an XP HOME pc. So I loaded it on the NTSF partition of the same drive. I don't know why it did & now doesn't work but it could be that you need to defrag and clear some space. To change partition types you need to re-format (resetting partitions will lose data structure - reformat required). You could just pop in an additional harddrive (slave) and have it formatted NTFS - then install it on that drive D:/postgres/ Not the answer you'd want but good luck. Troy ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly