[strath44]

thanks for your help chaps, as of tonight have partitioned 6 pc's will do others when this prob is fixed. Always used 98se or Win 2000 but finally had to upgrade this year to XP a fair few probs with crashing etc but not as bad as I expected. This was going to happen sooner or later due to the no. of images that we produce each week but will change the system soon.