At least flexibility, You never know maybe You get to upgrade Your BIOS one day and this works under DO$/Window$ only - so take a almost unused partition and do it. Don't forget to remove it afterwards!!! Matth On Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 18:10, dude wrote: > Is there any real reason to use partitions on a laptop > > since they are small hard drives? > > thankx > >