You might also check out the very cheap adapters to let you plug a 2.5" laptop drive into a standard IDE cable in your desktop system. I think I paid $10 for mine, worked like a dream. I needed to load Linux on an old 486 laptop with no CD drive. Dale -- "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu