The laptop started "clicking" whenever it was on, with two different Linux distros, including Gparted, I listened to where it was coming from, took it apart, sure enough, the hard drive. Bought a new hard drive, 160 gig to replace the 40. Will keep the old drive and possibly look into retrieving info later. Any advice or suggestions on dual booting? XP and a favorite Linux distro, if so, which one? ht