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yeah, the only thing that partition does that may screw up ur computer is that it can cause it to crash. ( someone may have already mentioned this) basically, what a partitian does is just temporaraly allow you to use another OS instead of ur current one. That means that all ur hardware - graphics card, audio card, RAM, ...etc are being used by the OS you partitioned. BUT, ur hardrive is still being used by ur other OS, unfortunetly, i dont know if you can check how much HD space you have left on the other OS... so that kinda sucks. and another thing - have you tried installing teh driver software for the network card that u are using. ( i dont know if its internal or not ) but anyway, you need to install that software, and then you might need to "switch" the network card from one OS to the other, ....kinda hard to explain. techinically...you should be able to go on the intenet, because its just another peice of equipment that you are using. ur not shutting it off or anything in the process of switching ur OS...