On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Thierry Sayegh wrote: > Stephane Dellacherie wrote: > XP *must* be installed on the first primary partition, then you can allocate > the remainder of the hd to FC. Hmm.. you can install it on *any* primary partition. If other partitions cause the installer grief - you can always hide these partitions - install XP - and unhide them. I use 'Ranish Partition Manager' to do these things. The factory recovery OEM disks do some other crap - so the issues could be different. Satish