Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! PC TOOLS VERSION 9.0 FIX.DISK very often repairs all defects in diskettes of all sizes. It takes quite a bit of time (depending on the speed of your computer), but offhand I would say my record of fixing bad disks with PCTOOLS 9.0 hovers around 90% BRIAN MURPHY BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --