I just received my Epilog Helix 45 watt. For some reason I somehow thought it was alot smaller than it was. Once it arrived, I got it off of the pallet in my garage and started to bring it in the house through the garage entrance only to find out that it did not fit in the door. So I opened the garage, wrestled it out of the garage, around the narrow and unlevel walkway to the front porch. I got the front wheels up on the porch (no ramp) as the front door blew shut. I went to reopen the front door only to have the engraver roll back off of the porch. This event repeated three times before I had the brilliant idea to wedge the door open with my wife's shoe (cloesest thing in the mud room area that I could reach).
With only a quarter of a half inch or so on both sides, I managed to get the engraver in the house. Turning it in the halway to get it to the office, I found was a tight squeeze to the point that I took the trim of with the base of the engraver.
After rolling it down to the office, I wrestle with it to get it in a position to roll in the office the find out that it doesn't fit in that door either.
So my wife doesn't come home and find that she can't get to the bathroom because of the engraver blocking the hall, I figure that I will move it into the dining room, so I readjust it and roll it down to the other end of the halway to find out that it doesn't fit in that doorway. I back it up and stop.
At this point I go get my measuring tape. We have an entry point into our dining area from the living room that is just big enough to fit the engraver in. As I roll it through the living room the leg catches on the corner of an end table and dragging it over and spilling everything off on the floor.
I did all of this by myself. At the time I was frustrated, but now I am glad there wasn't anyone around because they would have never let me live it down.
It took almost three hours to get the engraver from my garage to its semi final destination.
Once everything was said and done, it reminded me of an old Laurel and Hardy episode where they were trying to get a piano in a house. I just haven't figured out yet if I am Laurel or Hardy.
Needless to say, I am almost ready to get everything up and running.
Is anyone familiar enough with Vista to tell me an easy way to partition outmy computer or do I just have to go into the dos and do it there?

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under". ~Ronald Reagan

The first thing I thought of was taking the doors off, but the machine is the exact width of the door frame so the doors wouldn't make a difference.
The reason for the partition is I got a new computer and it is preinstalled with Vista. My printer, my scanner, and even my optical mouse and lcd monitor will not run properly.
I was thinking that if I partitioned it out and put XP on the partition, then I could run my engraver and such off of the XP side and do everything else off of the Vista side, but I am seeing now that that won't work. It sucks though that Vista is so non user friendly.

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under". ~Ronald Reagan

Reminds me of the time I bought a new office/computer desk, just to get it home to find out it would not go into our new home office (last child moved out!).

End result, wife got a $5,000 remodel so that I could have my $700 desk! Good trade, I think!

Doug

I also just recently bought an Epilog Helix 45 watt. Had to take one door off the hinges but other than that had no problems (had some help from a friend).
My question is... where's your Epilog distributor? Mine came out and installed everything for me and we were engraving in about 15 minutes - using xp, not vista. He would have also helped me bring it into the shop if I needed him to. Needless to say I'm pretty happy with the distributor in my area. Maybe your situation is different.