I tried to install from hd. Got as far as partitioning. Something went wrong after the partition screen. I have a 27 GB hd with 4 GB already set aside by the manufacturer for backup. I can't see the 4GB disk anymore in windows. FDISK displays: Mb System Used C: PRI DOS 21517 FAT 32 82% Total space 26106 So in effect, I'm missing 4 GB I actually wanted to try the windows install first to see if i wnated to get into trouble with Linux or not...looks like I'm already there;) Dennis