Nice work Nomad. you got some good stats there.
Pilotasso better hurry up and get his jet fixed. :P
:)
Can you not windows update or download the service packs?
Are you partitioning?
I think as long as the windows partition is less than lets say 80GB, it should be stable. It just wont like the extra GB in 2nd partition.
I had this problem on a 250GB drive. It wiped a partition out of existence with data on it, after a windows install on the 20GB first partition.
I was dumbfounded, the other partition was gone! off the planet.
Ended up installing SP1, then windows disk management saw the full drive size in unallocated partition, formatted it and was fine.
From CD install, create partition; and size(this will be the 1st C:drive), then leave left over GB. format later in Windows.
GL.