FAT32 is also much more likely to be corrupted that NFTS if you have a BSOD or something, and I never use it for the windows partition. The reason I suggested FAT32 was because I thought NTFS was still read only on linux but Greg pointed out it's now possible http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ I have had many a FAT32 file corruption over the years but so far not one NTFS. OMG maybe microsoft did something fairly decent. hehe -- Doug