You could try this: ------ | | |NT(C:)| |======| | a | | BSD | |------| |-------512MB | e? | |------| | | | f? | | | | | |======| | | |NT(D:)| | | | | ------ This keeps all the booting partitions (C:, a) below 512MB. Once booted, the rest of the drive should be accessable w/o problems. Kevin