I was told that Linux might finger or finger print my windows partition and could wipe it out....I am trying the same thing....but on windows 2000...I honestly tried partition magic I got from my friend but don't totally understand how much I should let for the linux partition or something....it says I have 1985.3 mb's I can use....but like I said I dont know what that means...I have a 10 gig Hd....and the linux native swap ....I do understand that I want to keep my windows as a primary and make the linux logical..right I think...