Trevnal, I finally got around to re-partitioning the new hard drive, especially since I had only 30 days to send back the old, bad drive, and tomorrow is 30 days...... Your specific instructions with partition magic were flawless, and I am heartily thankful for the explicit instructions. I did adjust to my changing needs, but I would never have done it without your instruction. I still need to reformat C drive, and install 2k as the second boot on D, but I am on the way to a cleaner, meaner system ;-P Thanks! nightsneak To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/