In a message dated 6/8/2004 7:42:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > On the fly usually means- while other stuff is going on. Thanks. But I still don't see how that translates to the cd burning, as I can do other things while it's burning anyway. Guess I'll have to se if I camn dig out the instructins and find out exactly what they mean, if they make it any clearer than what you just did. Given the type > of drive recovery work Spinrite is used for, however, it > may be advisable to let it run by itself to ensure successful completion of > the > repair, and to avoid inadvertent crashes from other programs or bad disk > reads which could force you to re-start the job. Given that it can take all > night to run, would you want to repeat it? Sounds like me trying to run a thorough scandisk in safe mode. Start it and go to bed and when I wake up, it's still got a little way to go. Dale