The replacement for my bad IBM 40GB disk showed up in an 8 day turnaround, quite good compared to the 23 days Seagate did barely a month prior. I cloned the HD from this box with DFSee as a shortcut. As far as it went, everything was fine, except that this box has no windoze and the one the replacement goes in needs W2K. After cloning, I booted everything except for the missing W2K, with no significant problems, OS/2 maintenance from /dev/hda1 via BM on /dev/hda2, Grub on /dev/hda5 for SuSE 8.2 root on /dev/hda7, and OS/2 normal on /dev/hda10. All that was yesterday. Today was install W2K on /dev/hda3 day. In preparation, all with DFSee I did a psave, "created" the type 0Bh partition on /dev/hda3, ran W2KBM, set all the HPFS partitions to type 17, set /dev/hda3 to 0Bh active, and then installed doze. Getting W2K more or less back to how it was when the disk died took about 7 hours, including SP2 application and a whole bunch of reboots for windoze updates. When all that was done, I was ready to use SuSE again, but all I get trying to do that is the word "GRUB". :-( In trying to guess what W2K could have done to fubar /dev/hda5, I'm coming up empty of ideas. Looking at the MBR with DFSee on OS/2 /dev/hda10 boot, nothing jumps at me except the I13X, SYS01462, and SYS01463 strings, meaning it looks like the MBR code wasn't touched by the W2K install. I have a 1 cylinder freespace between /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5, so I can't imagine formatting C: could have had anything to do with /boot. Running H on the first sector of /dev/hda5 I don't see anything familiar except the strings "GRUB Geom Hard Disk Read Error". I hesitate to jump right into a Linux rescue without some idea what happened, because I don't know what needs rescue. A Linux rescue prompt doesn't leave any guide what needs doing. fsck on the /boot and / partitions are clean. Mounting those two partitions leaves me able to see files that seem to belong in /boot, /boot/grub, and /etc. 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' shows me exactly what I expect to see. Any ideas from W2K multibooters out there? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html doesn't seem to have any questions on point, and Googling for a Grub rescue howto isn't working either. :-( -- "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html