Well you pretty much summed up my dilemma. The re-install disks wipe your drive and bring you back to factory settings with all your previous partitions removed. I have had dual boot linux / 98, linux / NT4 systems working fine in the past, but I've always had the media to do a clean install of both and not had any problems. I'm glad to hear they're using some form of partition magic for RH/Mandrake. I've heard many people say partition magic worked great for them. Now I'll just extract the partitioning program from the install set so I can use it in the future... Thanks for the help. Chris Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > w2k!!! DUMP THE WINDOWS!!! (the reason I emphisize > > this is that in my experience it is either one or the > > other on any computer... you can't run both without > > some kind of system failure. > > System failure? That's not good. But the reality is linux should coexist > without issue with any operating system. I've had Linux, Windows NT, and > Windows 98 installed on the same box with no issues. Currently the only > issue with my dual boot system is that my aging hard drives that I used for > windows died. On the bright side that leaves me with an all SCSI system. :) > > In the end it is probally easiest to wipe windows and reinstall, but keep in > mind that many laptops (espically Compaqs) have special windows install > disks and you can only get a working copy of windows from those special > disks. This wouldn't be so bad except that those disks have a nasty habit of > completely redoing your partitions. I'm pretty sure that RedHat and Mandrake > come with a stripped down version of Partition Magick to resize drives. They > probally still ship with disk druid as well. Since you haven't converted > your Windows partition to NTFS resizing the drive shouldn't be too much of a > problem, but beyond the programs I mentioned above I can't think of anything > else to do it... > > -- > Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com > LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 > 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 > Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055