I have an oldish Samsung laptop (V7000) and am trying to upgrade from the original Windows ME which was installed on purchase. I have tried upgrade to Windows 2000 prof and Windows XP prof. I have also tried clean install of both systems after reformat. The same problem occurs in all cases, that is, the install runs OK until it reaches the point where it is "loading devices". It gets about half way through this and the screen goes black - end of story!!!!. Any help would be much appreciated. (I have installed extra memory and this does not help)