<I kinda have to agree. My laptop has had a dead floppy drive for some ti <now; probably over 2 years. The only time I really miss it is a) when I <want to move data/pgms to a machine/person not "connected" or b) when I A handy way around that is to use intersvr and interlnk provided with dos 6.x. Those combined with a laplink serial or parallel cable can allow you to annex another systems drives for copies or installs. Using the parallel cable is faster. It's documented in the MSdos useres guide. I currently have a headless 386sx/25 with a few small hard disks, and two non 3.5" floppies and a CDrom that via parallel cable and the interlnk software serves and a sort of portable disk/cdrom/floppy to all my dos boxen. It's real handy for systems that only have a floppy or tiny hard disk. It saves having to have a network or anything more than a bootable disk with the programs on it (they are small!). Once running all of the disks on the server end are available as if they were connected locally. Allison