Bill, This question has been around a bit lately, so please open the attached file. I have 8 reasons to partition and 2 semi reasons against. Really depends on what you are doing with your system. One individual with one o/s and a 10 gb hdd. Don't bother partitioning. However if you intend to store 30gb of data with 2 operating systems actively used and a 3rd o/s for a backup, definitely partition. Get the idea. Where will you be in 100 years? If you don't know, I can tell you. (and its not the grave). Write me. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml