What's the big deal with IRs?
If they are only a fraction of the laser power, how could it be more dangerous than the laser beam itself? Of course not those ones that has crappy IR like 80% IR and 20% green...shouldn't people be more careful with the laser beam itself?
also, many people here...
I have encountered a similar situation before, try to use a bootable partitioning software to see if your xp partition is active or not.
it would also be that it has the "hidden" flag on it.
I've also had bad experiences with techlasers.com
aside from laserglow.com, you can also try warnlaser.com
I got my SWOT 300mW a week ago, and absolutely love it.