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Well, while setting up my new 560, I had the joy of attempting this and can offer a short report: It's weird! :-) Long version: The 560 won't boot from a pc card hard drive unless you go into EZ Setup and make if the first bootable drive it looks for. But it will then boot to the drive with no drivers or anything. I simply formatted my pc card as bootable under DOS mode and plugged it in. When the system starts, it makes the pc card the C:\ drive and the HDD inside is D:. I actually got Windows 95 installed on the drive as a bootable OS without a hitch! (125MB is cutting it close, though). Even cooler is the way that simply removing the card and rebooting returns things to normal. (I didn't test the effect of leaving a modem or something in it though.) This would be a great way of running another OS on the 560 without affecting your main drive, I'm thinking - I may try it out at some point. One strange thing when setting up Windows 95 - it only saw 512k of VRAM! I downloaded new video drivers, to no effect. Then I removed my display type from device manager and rebooted and it was detected properly. Hm. epbrown Stop by the Portable Computing Center for reviews, editorials, and the FAQ on laptop computers. http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown