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Hello all: I recently purchased a TP 365XD, 40 meg ram, 810 meg. HDD, 100 mhz. pentium. I set up two primary partitions using boot manager - 100 meg Win95, 276 meg Warp4 (my primary operating system), 400 meg logical drive. I added an external numeric keypad and mini-mouse, as well as external speakers. I'm a CPA and am using this as a desktop substitute at my house. WOW - so far I'm really impressed - this thing rivals my office machine (GW P5-100/64mg ram) in performance and functionality. As to my questions: I purchased the machine at office depot - they have a 2 year warranty extension (Plus 1 Product Protection) available for 139.95. IBM's warranty extension after my first year is $300 per year. The Plus 1 claims to provide support for everything the manufacturer does after the first year. Does anyone have any experience/input with the Plus 1 plan? My second question concerns the Win95 - I backed up the system using the disk director facility, repartitioned the drive, loaded DOS 6.22 and Warp4 on the 276 meg primary partition. When I went to reinstall Win95 on the 100 meg partition I originally got to disk 2 wherein the installation was unable to read certain files. I was able to get a replacement disk 2. Next installation bogged down at disk 3 - Again, I was able to obtain a replacement disk. Third try - setup is unable to read certain files on disk 14 - this time IBM refuses to replace the disk - something about their pre- load licensing - my only option is to return the system to them and have them setup the system as it was when I purchased it. Of course this is impossible as I have spent considerable time and effort configuring and tweaking this thing to get to where I am. Anyone have any ideas how to get Win95 setup on this machine? I'd buy the upgrade (I have several Win 3.1/11 licenses around somewhere) but I don't know that I have the room to install DOS/Win 3.11 and then Win95 in 100 megs. The fullpack seems rather pricey - I run Warp4 for work - I'd just like to check out Win95, since I'm licensed for it, and see how the other 99.99998% of the computing world lives <g>. Thanks for any input! David Kuharcik