well see now i know HDA1 is suppost to be harddrive well prblem being.. it doesnt even recognize it. i do not have a /dev/hda1/ or /dev/hda/ dir. all that i ahve is /dev/fd/ | /dev/scsi/ personally i am in clined to agree there is a problem on the drive itself wether it be the table or something else... i got into Fdisk with a Novell/Dos boot disk (come sin real handy for windows systems) cleared the tables wrote new ones.. and am still haveing a problem any thoughts?