what kinda problems u havin wit your zip? well at my folks crib they also use a harddrive. that seems to work fine. since it cant burn cd's u cant save to a cd drive. the last resort would be to save to floppy. thats always an option but floppies dont hold much of shi*. so u'll find yourself with hundreds of freakin floppies. so if you dont want to use zip, i would look into maybe a harddrive or something