As long as the installation didn't overwrite part of the vfat's it should pretty much just work. Can you mount the windows partition with: mkdir /win98 mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win98 if so then adding the following to /etc/fstab should work: /dev/hda1 /win98 vfat default 0 0 Was he running XP or Win2K Professional or other NT based system before? John