Bill, Sorry to hear about the hdd fail, now is a good time to use the laptop w a thumb drive and install it to that. That is how my server is setup. Jason Bill Kelsey - N8ET <n8et@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Rein - The new CD looks good - however - I think the hard drive on my laptop just failed - It won't boot from the hard drive, and when I boot up the Puppy CD it does not see the hard drive at all.... --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.