Ah. That's a perfectly reasonable explanation. I can understand that. I'd load NT or Win2kPro at home, except the wife would be completely lost. As for loading NT on the second HD, it'll pick up Win98 with no problems. It will still require putting stuff on the boot drive (your C: drive) and that's how it picks up Win98. All in all, it's not that difficult. Just don't let it format the drives ... :) You may also want to think about NOT converting the drives to NTFS. If you do, they won't be accessible when you boot into Win98. Oh, one other question, is the drive current a FAT32 drive? NT 4 has (or had) a bit of a problem reading FAT32. I can't remember off the top of my head whether this was fixed in the later service packs or not. Too many sick kids in the house and not enough sleep will do WEIRD things to your memory. You ever get out of bed to go to the bathroom and get halfway there and forget what you got up to do? That's how my week's been ALL week.... :P John