Quote Originally Posted by Linkooseven
I still cant get my sound to work >_<

About the partitions, my current HDD (the one i'd end up using for Linux) is 20GB in size. The HDD I want to buy to use Windows XP on is going to be much bigger. How would I do this? Just install Linux on the 20GB harddrive, and Win XP on the new HDD and then set up the duel boot system? So I could pick which HDD to start up with at boot? I really dont understand things about partions and other things, so any help would be appriciated.

Thanks in advance.
Well the best way would be get the new HD and install it as the master (first) drive on the ide bus and set the old one to slave on that cable or put it as the master on the second ide bus if you do not already have a cdrom there (no messing with jumpers that way). Partition your new drive with about 10-15gb for XP as the primary ( C: ) drive that should be more than enough for the bloatware if you need more make it bigger but not the whole drive unless you format it with fat32 instead of the default ntfs and make a second partition on the new drive ( which would be your D: after you have formatted the second hard drive and installed linux until then it would show up as E: with the second hard drive being D: confusing I know gotta love dos ) and format it fat32 so you can easily share the files between xp and linux as well as have the ability to write to it from linux you can not safely do this with ntfs partitions. Then install the XP on the new HD go though the configuration and get everything setup then copy the data you want from the old drive that you set up as the second drive in the machine then format and install the linux/knoppix on the second drive. The install program will ask you if you want to install lilo to the MBR and if you say yes then you will have a lilo boot screen which will allow you to boot either xp or linux/knoppix.

With you saying that you do not know much about pattitioning I take it you have never used the dos fdisk program to partition a drive before am I correct in this assumption? BTW what kind of sound card is it?