windows disk drive test availabel is their a pd freeware hard drive utility that can handle a compressed ide drive without screwwing it up need to document occasional failures in reading writing check overall integrity of disk s hardware and sectors i believe that all of my problems with dos windows can be isolated to my drive getting occasional corrupted files even with smartdrive bit access turned off had these problems under dos only with drive c drive d may have had one failure but that file was under the control of win winword on drive c all utilities available to me report no problems dos ndd nu another symptom sd took forever on c and kicked me out with a suspension till ndd run to times thanks mike hayes knowledge is good faber college motto www knowledge and thoroughness rensselear poly motto unemployed tech no thank you groucho marx a day at the races driven to banging my head against engineering physics for years
