Hi, from what I've learnt (via pcbuild) recently about partitioning, I wouldn't have thought it was a partition problem if it's stating that you still have 33+G available. I can't answer if you can repartition without losing data, in my case, the answer was no.(This was because I was only using 40+% of my hard drive, and there was another partition which I couldn't access. I wanted to use 100% of my hard drive with one o/s, which I have now achieved) Just to be sure about firewalls, have you tried disabling them just for a few minutes, and then try to download while the firewall is disabled? I don't know what o/s you're using, but I'm sure xp has it's own firewall. I don't know if that could cause problems or not. The reason I'm asking about firewalls, is, because once, after my children had been using my computer, I suddenly could not download either. It turned out that my firewall settings had been altered. After hours of checking everything, I disabled the firewall, and it downloaded perfectly. Just a thought. M.Sayer The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com