Hello! What about creating two "primary" partitions in a MS Windows environment? With Linux, at least with a patched kernel to access some MS filesystems, you can read, mount, and change/re-format the filesystems. Mac OS X at least can mount PC file systems ... and if it's able to read the disk's MS label again you should use Disktool to create a HFS or HFS+ partition and an empty one for further processing under Linux. Or ext2fsx. -- Greetings Pete