On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:04 pm, you coughed up: > the partition was formated AFTER the repartitioning Download a diagnostic program from the manufacturer of the disk, most of them will run with a dos/w9x boot disk http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/index.htm http://melrom.com/drivers.htm best to check if the disk has a real problem first -- Jason Cormie