[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping. I may look into some of the mentioned products in this post. I am some what limited since I am still using Windows ME. So I have been postponing the issue.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Does the motherboard hava spare SATA port....and a slot to mount a seperate hard drive....HDD's insanely cheap...I just picked up a Seagate 1.5 Terabyte board at Fry's for $129....

If you do I can show you how to boot from the drive with BIOS adjustments ...and depending on the processor ...we can figure out a Linux that will run ... Doesn't have to be a SATA port if you haven't used all of the IDE ports available..

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks like Newegg has 80 Gig HDD for 35.00...either IDE or SATA from Seagate or Western Digital.

OEM will not have any anything other than the drive.