Darrell: |>Randall Hopper |> Safest bet is a reformat of your hard drive. | |I think reformatting only destroys the linkage between blocks. The data |remains. Could be that this is the case for safe format (which I never use), but invoke unconditional format ("format /u") from a DOS floppy and it'll wipe your disk clean AFAIK. -- Randall Hopper aa8vb at yahoo.com