Sure, just shutdown and connect the drive, then enter bios and make sure the drive shows up, then boot and then as root; fdisk -l <-- see what it is called fdisk /dev/sda <-- create a partition I use reiserfs so; mkreiserfs /dev/sda1 mkdir /mnt/storage add something like this to /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/storage reiserfs defaults 0 0 -- Powered by Gentoo/Linux