> Have you tried your hard drive vendor's website (eg, Seagate, Maxtor, > etc...)? Some have boot floppy utilities for this purpose. > -- > scot The ideal tool would work across the full spectrum of manufacturers. This would be nice in situations where hard drive brand is unknown for one reason or another. In fact, I've heard that Western Digitals diagnostic utility works this way, but I have not been able to verify that. I'll have to try the tools on the Knoppix disk to see how well they work. The physical state of the drive is more important in thiscase then the actual file structure. Thanks for the info. -Eric _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list