Let's hope that's all it needs. It's always possible that one of the heads or platters has been damaged so badly that the drive can't be recovered... AFAIK the low-lrvrl disk tools were never distributed at all. But they have survived... Bob (Davis) : I am rather too busy at the moment to deal with this, and it is fairly urgent (he's told me in private e-mail he needs to get it fixed in a couple of weeks). Can you make a copy of the appropriate disks? Well, you need a POS boot disk, and you need the disk tools. They don't _have_ to be the same disk.. -tony