I have a Seagate HD. Windows shows me it is a 7.2 Gb hard drive. When I Fdisk-ed it the space Fdisk showed me as 1.2 Gb. I can write and read easlily from the disk provided the amount of information residing on the disk does not go beyond 700 Mb. I tried it in different configuration machine - it is same all over. Can anybody tell me what is the reason for this anomaly. Thanks anticipated. aftab Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml