I had 7.1 set up as a dual boot on my CTX notebook. The bios will see something around 6G max on the harddrive. I installed a 10G HD that I had prepartitioned into 2 5G drives. I have windows on the first and had 7.1 on the second. Since I hadn't really gotten very far into setting up 7.1, I deleted the partition that it was on and started to install 8. During the unpacking of "Linux", it gives me a crc error. I grabbed the iso from another site (thinking I had a bad copy) and tried it again. It stopped at the same point. The 7.1 install that I ran from windows worked great. Now I'm wondering if this new install from the bootup floppy is conflicting with the way I have the HD set up. Anyone have any ideas? Lon Lentz Applications Developer & CyberEntomologist - Alvion Technologies DataWarehousing and List Sales - Market Your Lists on the Net! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 941-574-8600 Ext. 210