A caution here. Always install Windows first. Windows has a very aggressive installer that will trash a previously installed Linux unless you really know what you're doing. I've even had it happen on a system where I had Linux and Windows on separate drives. Linux installers, on the other hand, do no violence to a previously installed Windows. It's also a very good thing to install Linux as soon as you have your base install of Windows in, before you begin creating other files. Windows partitions can become badly fragmented very quickly, and then you risk overwriting data on the Windows partition when you do your Linux install if you have to resize the Windows partition to get the job done. On your question about NTFS, there is FOSS software available now that makes Linux able to read and write to NTFS partitions and other that allows Windows to read and write to ext2 or ext3 Linux file systems. I haven't tried them. Instead I have a FAT32 partition that I use as the data partition for both operating systems. Best regards, Marbux BUCK "MARBUX" MARTIN Director of Legal Affairs OpenDocument Foundation Contact: <<a href="http://www.opendocumentfoundation.us/contact.htm">http://www.opendocumentfoundation.us/contact.htm </a>> Charter member, Two Guys without a Garage, <<a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/cracks-in-foundation.html">http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/cracks-in-foundation.html</a>> -- Universal Interop Now!