I just had a single partition on my comp of C: 70 GB To have multiple partitions on my comp I have to remove WINDOWS boot into DOS and create partitions and then install Windows again which I fear I cannot do. A Linux Book suggested using Partition Magic without having to do the above stated process and still create partitions. Once I was warned by the HP Technical Support not to install any other OS on my HP comp or else I would lose the recovery drive of 377MB. So I did a disk defragmentation and then using Partition Magic I created a 9.9GB for Linux and installed Ubuntu using the CD. The installation happened very well and I just had to reboot and create a user account for my login. After reboot a disaster struck the HP recovery started. I recovered my system and I was back to square1. I reinstalled my Windows OS. Because of this my NVIDIA graphics card my webcam and printers were impaired since I did put the correct CD but donno what happened. Now Ubuntu does not show up at all anywhere. One of my friends told me that HP, IBM, APPLE write their own boot sequence Now I am out of my 1 year warranty for my comp Or Buy a secondary hard drive set it up as a slave and then boot linux on it Or Buy a USB connected external hard drive and set up linux on it. Advice me what to do. Any of the above steps would simply cost me dearly. Is there any work around except for the live CD. I want Ubuntu installed on my system? -- Jayasimha Yerramilli Technical Support Engineer, MKS Inc. Bangalore 9880381405