Some random thought have come to me as I read about the coming XP invasion. If anyone on the newsgroup has given micro$soft any free time to test the product you may already know the answer. 1) If XP auto-detects the environment as part of determining if it has been moved to a new machine does it do anything bad to folks who re-partition to add Linux? 2) Do they mess with the partition is any way so adding Linux will break the system? Mark Browne