I have a dual boot E-machines 667ir with Mandrake 8.1 and ME on it. As you all know, ME is worthless crap. So I decided to see what all the hubub was on XP. I selected UPGRADE instead of clean install, and was very surprised to see that it did not trash my MBR. After the upgrade EVERYTHING worked, I could still dual boot with no problems. I still like Linux better. I did not realize that Microsoft merged with Fisher Price.