I picked up an old laptop drive and had some trouble cleaning it off. I was unable to delete the flash.ocx. I had mounted the drive rw using an old knoppix (3.04) and as root I was unable to delete it. I tried changing the permissions and it again failed. I had a similar trouble when I tried with the SuSE 9.3 I finally found an XP machine I could use for a minute and changed the permissions there and removed he unneeded files. Last night after getting the last of the files off I reformatted it I'm trying to put a vFAT partition on it and get more errors (My daughter still plays games on a win98 machine) #mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003) Device mounted using subfs, please do not access it while creating filesystem -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca