I have changed the partitions as suggested but am still having problems, once I select linux from grub I get the following message and nothing happens: Booting Linux Internal (hd0, 4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 hdd=ide-scsi [linux-bzImage, setup=0xe00, size=0xa4530 this is what partition info shows my partitions as: Partition Information for Disk 1: 29180.6 Megabytes Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects ============================================================================ =============================== C:MAIN FAT32 Pri,Boot 5020.3 0 0 63 10,281,537 4,153,586 6,127,951 Extended Pri 24160.3 0 1 10,281,600 49,480,200 49,480,200 0 EPBR Log 23.5 None -- 10,281,600 48,195 48,195 0 Linux Ext2 Log 23.5 10281600 0 10,281,663 48,132 3,536 44,596 EPBR Log 258.9 53641035 1 10,329,795 530,145 530,145 0 *:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Log 258.8 10329795 0 10,329,858 530,082 8 530,074 EPBR Log 5028.2 10329795 1 10,859,940 10,297,665 10,297,665 0 Linux Ext2 Log 5028.1 10859940 0 10,860,003 10,297,602 2,613,970 7,683,632 EPBR Log 855.0 10859940 1 21,157,605 1,751,085 1,751,085 0 Linux Ext2 Log 855.0 21157605 0 21,157,668 1,751,022 29,718 1,721,304 EPBR Log 15006.0 10281600 1 22,908,690 30,732,345 30,732,345 0 D:GAMES FAT32 Log 15006.0 22908690 0 22,908,753 30,732,282 26,217,326 4,514,956 EPBR Log 2988.7 22908690 1 53,641,035 6,120,765 6,120,765 0 E:STUFF FAT32 Log 2988.6 53641035 0 53,641,098 6,120,702 3,295,506 2,825,196 basically I have a windows c: then /boot, /swap, /, /home, win d, win e I would really appreciate any help. Alex Hopson