Hi everybody, I have a couple of questions re partitioning and the partition table. I have a 250 boot drive. I partitioned it into two, a 50 gig boot partition, and the rest as a second partition for data storage. I also have a 750 gig external I've partitioned into six. I don't keep the external permanently plugged in, just when needed. Since I partitioned my boot drive and started using the external windows has twice had a problem at boot time, although exactly what the problem has been I don't know as there's obviously no speech feedback at that point. In each case windows loads when I press f1. Could it be that either the way I've partitioned the boot drive, or using the external could have confused windows in some way? Since the most recent format and reload, last evening I have neither partitioned my drive nore plugged in the external, and there have been no problems. It has occurred to me perhaps that my the way I'm using the external may be confusing windows. Is that likely? John.