I want to be able to keep my windows operating system and all its files but i want to partition it with mandrake linux. I never went through the process of trying to install mandrake because i am afraid i will do something wrong. Does mandrake have its own hd partition program? Or what is the steps needed to take to install it and have both windows and linux. Also should i run some check before i install linux to see if hardware is compatible with it.