> Sidenote: Does Compaq still allocate a small part of the hard drive to an > extended BIOS of sorts? I seem to recall some discussion about that a few > years ago. > > I don't believe so... there's a 'system' partition (D:), but it looks to be backup configuration and driver files more than anything. Considering I just blew away all my partitions and redid them, and WinME seems to be reinstalling fine, I'm guessing it's not necessary for anything but Compaq's management stuff. -- Michael Vieths Email: Foeclan at Winternet.com Web: http://www.geekbear.net