Nowadays  external USB 2.0 Burners are very affordable

For Writers (Burners) Plextor  <<<here>>>  is the highest quality.

Buy your motherboard wit a onboard ata 133 promise raid controller

This allows you to Buy my favorite DVD, CD reader a Liteon IDE 16X speed for $40 and install it on Your internal  secondary slave IDE port allowing you to boot Partition Magic 8, Norton Ghost 2003 and various OS'es to install.

Then you can either buy a Plextor Internal IDE 48X burner ($90) installing it on your Internal Secondary master port or a even handier External Plextor USB 2.0   48X burner ($160).

CNET PC, in New York area , is <<<here>>> .

For prices copy and paste these models  into  www.pricewatch.com  's  search engine.

09/18/2004 07:52:07 AM -0500