>> Type Cyls Head Precomp Landz >> Sector Size >> user 872 16 342MB > > David: > aren't you "sectors/track" in the data above? How did you get >the 342MB? > oops, sorry bout that. cyl = 872 head = 16 sect = 48 ends up with 327 meg hard drive. I convinced her to drive into town and bring in her computer. As Jim has suspected, the controller card was not making good contact. In fact, it wasn't inserted at all by the time I was able to view it. There were no screws holding the card in, no screws holding the cd rom in place, nor the floppies, nor the hard drive, nor the case. The wires were all scattered about, unhooked ones tangled around everything and so forth. Rather an interesting picture, sort of an abstract art rendering of what a computer would look like! ;-) That and a few other things. Actually, it was sort of fun to play with as she wasn't too worried about losing any settings. Her favorite trick so far is now having the machine come up in windows without it booting to the dos prompt! I remember when I thought that was too cool also. I apologize for the incorrect data of my earlier post as I didn't take the time to figure it out for myself, I was taking her word for the details. Things are much better now. Thanks to everyone. David A. Abbe _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]