Cy, what I did in the past - I put a different operating system on it - just in case something happens I can still access my things. My brother in Germany who works on computers longer than I do (and he taught me a lot in that area) he used the smaller partition to put his main operating system on it. So - when he has to go back to factory settings for some reason - he does not lose all his other stuff that is on the larger partition. Since I was told that most virus thingys go for the files of the operating system this makes sense to me. Jackie - what do you think about that? Trudy >________________________________ > >Cy > > > > > >Is there any need to keep those two partitions any longer