Jon, you recovered and your computers recovered.

I went back to the very first post just now (Mark Cohen hasn't posted in ages, he absented himself when he had too many things going on in his life - but if you're ever back - hello, Mark!) He was asking about Partition Magic (I used that back before Windows made partition shifting easy) and I also used dual operating systems (I had a Windows ME that was crap and wanted to use Win2000/NT - so we're going back a ways.) It wasn't difficult to boot into one or the other OS.

Jon and others have talked about putting Linux on a thumb drive and booting from that. Did you have to change your computer settings (BIOS) to have it look for the thumb drive when you turned on the computer, or do you do a hot swap between OS?