Bashy <bashy.maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> says... > > 1) is there away with PCs to mark bad sectors, as there was with my Amiga? Modern drives handle this internally, if you get a bad sector now it means the drive has used up all it's spares and needs to be replaced ASAP. -- (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened... Gavin Kinsey - gavin at trollgod dot org dot uk