[sonic_mikey]

Im going to avoid dell as mush as possible for replacement parts lol this is the laptops second hard drive and they sent me a Hitachi travelstar 80gb 7200 rpm replacment which was awesome, but now nearly impossible to find. Dell now seems to have gone down hill. I was looking at some HD on Newegg but id rather buy a used one.
Ubuntu pretty good, but im looking at dual booting linuxmint and XP. Mint has a nice interface and is pretty user friendly