The partition has Windows XP on it, and it boots fine and as far as I can tell operates without any problems. I don't think that drive has any intrinsic errors on it. I've run chkdisk and scandisk and defragmented the drive, and I don't know what else I can do in Windows to make sure the drive is okay. All indications are that it's alright. I there anything else I can do Linux-side to mount this partition? Dave