Disem uttered: > I was unable to create an *windows* filesistem... > > mkfs -t vfat /dev/myharddrivepartition.. > > mkfs.vfat: no such file or directory mkfs.vfat returns this error when the specified myharddrivepartition is invalid. You do know that mkfs won't create the partition, right? What does 'fdisk -l /dev/myharddrive' show? My windows partion is listed liike this: /dev/hda1 * 1 523 4200966 b Win95 FAT32 HTH, Paul