Hi, I was able to correct the sector overlapping errors by deleting the partition, and specifying my own size for the D partition without Partition Magic. The original D partition size was 2047 MB. Original Installation Mandrake 7.0's Auto allocation assigns the following to my D partition: /boot = 15 MB / = 925 MB /swap = 188 MB /home = 925 MB The total is 2043 MB. A message followed up: "sector #8385993 (61498 MB) and sector #6506388 (3702 MB) are overlapping!" I clicked on the OK and Done buttons. The installation ran okay, and Linux worked work for two or three days. The third day, when I was in Linux KDE, I selected logout, shutdown and restart. My intentions were go to WinNT4 - to access Netscape. During the start up, the screen went totally black and did not change. I corrected this by reinstalling as shown: Second Installation I ran the installation CD - to setup of file systems. Before deleting, I clicked on each sector, and wrote down the size of each sector. Next, I deleted the D partition, sector by sector, and resized each sector, as shown below: /boot = 15 MB / = 854 MB /swap = 321 MB /home = 854 MB The total is 2044 MB. Note: For '/swap', I have 128 MB. of RAM and multiplied the values times 2.5. The value comes to 320 but Mandrake forces it to 321 MB. No problem. I reran the installation, with no sector errors. Roman
