good point about leaving it alone (unpartitioned)

actually did a speed test of a drive i partitioned once and slowed the main drive down a bit but the second partition (drive) was a lot slower, dont understand why this happened tbh, but was on my laptop (compaq) running something called speedsys or something (for when running on batteries and or power consumption i think) maybe that why

Anyway borrowed a drive off a mate now so just gonna try and do a basic install (if the win 98 disk dont work) just to check there aint some silly setting in my bios i missed or anything worse

Mo
aka Steve