> Anyway, any suggestions welcome. STAPLES has a 40 gig , 7200 rpm hard drive on sale this week for $99.00 For just $99.00 all your troubles will be over! You can keep your old hard drive and ADD the new one below it. Sort of like that box of paperwork I am going to file later..... I recently put a bigger box on top of it...... ----------------- something else I was thinking: Pictures take a lot of space. If you have a lot of pictures you could burn them onto a c.d. , then delete them from the H.D.D.. But you probably already thought of that. Have a GREAT day. J.