On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:19, you wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:50:43AM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > > Now, the whole point of reinstalling Windows was so that I could view the > > contents of my fat-format Zip disk. > > Uhm, you should be able to look at your fat-format Zip disk under > Linux without too much hassle. I'd imagine (v)fat support is > compiled in (or a module) for every distro's default kernel. And > as far as I know Zip disks have been fully supported for quite a > while (though I have no first hand knowledge - I avoid those > things like the plague). Thanks, but as I explained earlier, for some strange reason, my Linux box does not read fat fs Zip disks. It does (just to compound the weirdness) read vfat fs Zip disks. Also, I compiled my kernel to read both fat and vfat file systems. Very weird. Actually, I suspect that it's a problem with the Zip disk itself. As I recall, it was formated on a Mac in fat format, and when I examined it in Windows, I had to run scandisk on it to correct some errors. Eventuallly, I'll wipe it completely and put a ext2 fs on it and see how that works. :Peter