It's the telltale you forgot to format your hard disk drive. You *must* use the FORMAT (driveletter:) command (FORMAT C:) to format your hard disk drive. You partitioned your hard disk drive, but did not format it, thus no FAT on the hard disk drive! To use a disk drive, you *must* format it first. FDISK *does not* format the hard disk drive automatically. ---Randy J. Anderson--- Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com