Hi, Well I buckled down and reinstalled and this time used fdisk instead of Disk Druid to create the partitions I wanted, and succeeded. Yay for me. I told it to format my partitions. I suppose this is the "fresh install" that I wanted. Well, my KFM still freezes when I click the shortcut to my DOS_hdb2 on my desktop, or the shortcut to my floppy, or the shortcut to the CD Rom drive. It also freezes if I browse to the /mnt folder and try to look at what all is in there. When I right click both the /mnt and the /dev folder and click the "Permissions" tab, everything is grayed out. I think this might just be a KDE/KFM bug. I can't see how I can be having this problem repeated so much after a so-called "clean install". BTW, yes, all the necessary permissions are given to each user. Root has the same problem, anyway. Permissions have been double-checked using another file manager or the terminal and are fine. Other file managers/terminals work fine. BTW (again) I didn't have this problem the very, very first time I installed Mandrake. Any help would be great. Karen (who's having a hard time typing any more smilies to take the edge off my frustration!) ;-)
