as long as you do have space left on that drive (meaning UN-partitioned space), mandrake 7.0 will work perfect. The partitioning is all visual (did you know that already...?) and if you can point and click then you should have no problems. AS long as you do not even think about touching the fat32 partitions that you will see, you'll have no prob's. Dont even click on them, its just asking for something evil to happen. If its your first install of Linux or even just first Mandrake Install, just hit the auto-allocate button and all the partitions will safely be made. Good luck. If its your first linux install, stick with the graphical partioner that is generally provided, and for now stay away from fdisk and the like