First of all, my apologies to the group for posting this problem here, but I've had no luck with the local MS Win95 'experts' Actually, this does involve SuSE/Linux because the problem is on one of my dual boot platforms and resulted in my having to figure out a work around in order to install v7.2, but that's a story for another submission. The platform had a HD pack up last week and I siezed upon that as an excuse to increase my HD space on that platform. I got a 45GB Maxtor - I've had good luck with Maxtor DH's in the past and their software makes installation very easy. I accepted the Maxtor default FAT16 partitioning and created 23 2GB partitions with a smaller 24th partition on the end. Subsequent to this step is where I generate the problem for which I'm seeking a solution. Because of the new drive there are more than 26 partitions on the machine, which exceeds the limit that the Win95 File Manager, actually it's power desk - which is based on the Win95. So the Win95 File Manager ran out of assignable drive letters before it assigned a letter to the CD drive. BIOS still finds the CD during boot and Linux certainly does but Win95 doesn't. The file manager sees drives A through U, with the exception of B. One of the 'experts' I consulted said duhhhhhh and the other said that he thought that there was a number restriction that MS imposes on Win, but he wasn't sure. I dimly remember something about a lastdrive specification in MS OSs, but no details. Help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.