Hello, This is going to be quite interesting to try to explain. I've got a friend who had an older box, still good, it was a 32 bit athlon64 machine. It ran xp something I can't remember which was left on it and as I said the sata drive is good. He got a new box, also sata, this one a 64 bit also an AMD processor, this one a multi-core. This one is running 7 home premium. He wants to have both systems available. I reconnected the old sata drive and that's browsable so he can get to his old files, but he was wanting to try something else. I don't think doing this next would make the old drive stable, but if I set up a multiboot configuration, which I haven't done since the 98 dys, where he gets a boot manager and selects which OS he wants, would it be possible to put in the needed 64 bit drivers for chipset, motherboard, video, audio, networking, basically so the new drive would operate on the new hardware, and make it stable? My gut says no this is not doable. Failing that, can I somehow get this drive to run in a vm like vmware server? Thanks. Dave.