to make a long story short i have two gateway desktops one a 700mhz and the other a 550mhz pentium 3 systems, when attempting to run lnx4win on the 700mhz system the install hangs just past the point of the ide 1 and ide 2 detection lines dont know if i will ever get this one worked out but my question is on the 550 machine the install goes great but i get the window that asks what i want to do with my drive either to completely erase the contents or to make a partion for linux. i was under the impression that disk partioning was not necessary in the linux for windows software and that it created two files in the windows os to run linux under. i think the 7.2 version is what is packaged on the cd rom anyone out there installed linux for windows any help greatly appreciated thanks ken cubilo