For my birthday last week my family gave me a zippy CD writer (48x24x48x). My son offered to install it for me and I said where's the fun in that. The installation was no problem — I replaced the DVD-ROM since we have a DVD player now. However I found that the old CD writer was still just a shiny coaster maker. So, I yanked it out and now use the DVD ROM as the source for CD to CD copies. And, just now, I made a good copy of the Knoppix Linux on a CD. The next step is to back up the "user" files on my Windows Me box and then upgrade it to Win2k.