> I have a question though , how do you determine whether the partition > started > from track 1 or track 2 . Does it describe how to actually start a > partition from > track 1 and not track 2 so there will be no unallocated sectors ? > All i know is that you can ask fdisk to start a partition from cylinder > 1 and that's > as far as it goes . > track 1 is in cylinder 1. If you start in cylinder 1 you will be ok. -- ======================================================================= To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. - C. K. Chesterton ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484