>The NT install program >said "one or more of my drives" had more than 1024 cylinders -- which >it has, even with LBA (logical block addressing), and then it told me >all the partitions on my drive were either unknown, unformatted or >damaged, or free space. Does the NT installer format the partition(s) itself? I've not worked with NT in that respect, so I don't know if it's relevant or not, but XOSL comes with Ranish Partition Manager, so you can create/delete/format partitions from there. Joshua -- To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org