ok, last night i had to reinstall winxp professional for a friend. it killed itself. well, it said to stick the windows disk in and hit r for recovry. so i did that and it keep crashing. so i pulled out the demo linux cd and booted it to there. then i stuck anohter harddrive in to back his files up cuase he does work in photoshop and illustrator. he doesn't use a mac cuase he just called himself an idiot/*then agian, we do play alot of gtaIII on that system*/ so i had to use demo linux to copy files off the ntfs partition and to the fat 32 one. actally go do yourselves a favor and go get demolinux, it kicks ass for fixing shit. anyway, ill keep you guys posted on how my work with the beast, and no, linux isn't an option, i wish it was though anyway, havephun