Dear friends: WARNING: TRY ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! The subject of using raw disks, that is, real disks, in VMware has been raised on our list a number of times, including by myself. The detailed information is readily available in detail from VMware's Help menu. I clicked on Help in VMware. This brought me to VMware's instructions, which include FULL AND DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS on how to configure a virtual machine for a raw disk. Here are the two sites. I already mentioned the second site last time, but the first site is the crucial one. I just discovered it. I am sure that you'll have no problem figuring everything out from the information provided. Even I understood most of it quite well. It's the technical implementation that I am afraid of. I don't want to make a stupid mistkae that will trash my newly installed Win98. 1) Using Raw Disks With VMware Workstation for Linux: http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/rawdisk_linux.html 2) Configuring Dual/Multiboot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation for Linux: http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/rawdevices_linux.html Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]