Amazing! What maddening misfortune! A reinstallation it is! Oh well. Yes, my drive (partitioned for total use) is 250GB. As it turns out, I kind of figured this would happen. I installed the Emergency Recovery Console well into my install's old age. Every time I attempt to use it, it bellows inaccessible boot device. And repartitioning to something smaller is **** near the same hassle as a fresh install. Although, I'm seriously considering repartitioning it as something else. I miss my linux... hold the phone. Hee hee.... Perhaps the most prudent path is the one least considered. What I COULD do, NOT what I SHOULD do, but what I probably WOULD do is grab a spare 40GB I have, partition it as NTFS and use it as my windows boot drive, then partition the 250GB as Ext2FS for a linux install. This filesystem is solid and mature enough that stable Windows drivers are available for it. However I'd miss the stability of Ext3FS journaling. Meh. Then, I keep all my windows programs on my Linux drive and use it like a standard NTFS. That is so wrong. Heh. I smell a long and gloriously miserable night ahead - followed by many sweet and hard-rocking days. Wish me luck, fellows!