:) Thank you very much, I'm grateful to know that. I'm going to read up on what the extended benefits of the update BIOS are. I may save an awful lot of time and money by buying a new drive under 12GB if the only issue the update gets around is drive capacity. I'll be running Debian with a simple x ...

If that could be reduced to its simplest and most urgent form;

'Will an external (USB) floppy drive work for a BIOS update?'

Not to double post, but I realise the way I went about my first was waffley and daunting.

Thanks for your patience,

John

I'm new to ThinkPads. I thought I'd got lucky by buying a 'ThinkPad that boots to BIOS' for £15 (reduced to 10 by the seller when I bought it without knowing more), and that's still my stance, though the bill is topping up. Thankfully, in spite of my recklessness, there is only one fault I've yet no...