I just bought a new 1 GHz Athlon machine today and went to install a friend's copy of Mandrake 7.2, and I wish I could say it was easy, but it's been a tremendous hassle. Never mind the way the installer crashes if you don't wait for a CD to spin up before telling it the disc is in the drive, never mind the way the installer crashes in the middle of configuring X Windows. Those are minor problems because Linux is now working. The problem is that when I went to install Windows 98 on the partition I had created for that purpose, it apparently overwrote the boot loader (GRUB). That's what I'm guessing, anyway, because GRUB didn't start and I just got a "Disk I/O error". So I fired up the Mandrake installer again and got GRUB back, and now Linux boots fine, but Windows still doesn't. Screen output looks like this: Booting 'windows' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xb makeactive chainloader +1 Disk I/O error Replace the disk, and then press any key So, aside from getting Mandrake 8.1, which I have every intention of doing, what can I do to resolve this issue? Thanks in advance! --Ben