Well Holy Cow! I did download the Disk Manager from the IBM site. Took a deep breath and it formatted and would have partitioned it had I chosen to do so. I may yet! The only thing I don't like is that it rearranged my drive letters, I might change that. All in all I am very pelased with the way it quickly took charge of my problem! Thanks for your input, USA-Sylvia Your welcome Sylvia! It has been a long time since I had to run DFT, I can't remember but I think I had to run fdisk after so I could have 3 partitions and for sure then would have had to format the 3 drives. I don't know anything about CD burners or the Ghost programs. Sylvia writes: > > Thanks Hank! Now I know a bit more than I did before. I am so afraid it > will wipe my current hd drive and I have too much info that I would have to > back up. I do have a CD burner, Ghost 2000. I have no clue how to use > Ghost, although I have tried to muddle thru the pdf file that came with it. > <snipped the rest> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/