Hi Timothy, Tks for your advice. > Incidentally, you should try to install Windows with VFAT rather than > NTFS, > if you want to share data with Linux. Good suggestion, tks. > I would download and burn Knoppix at some point; > it is invaluable for working out what is happening > if there are problems. I use Knoppix a lot since its first edition. I build this new AMD64 box for testing FC5_64 and other 64 bits Linux distro. Tks. B.R. SL