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> I am a newbee and sometimes Dizzy too. My question is I have a computer that
> has a rather large drive but it is all formated in NTFs and yes it has XP
> Pro on it how would I be able to put Free BSD on there without loosing the
> files I have with the other operating system?? I told you that I was
> confused.

Do you have several partitions on it or a single one?

If you have several partitions, remove everything from one of the
partitions and use it for FreeBSD.

ifyou have a single partition, splitit into 2, using things like
partition mahgic.

Olivier