Hi there, I don't know if this has been suggested before so please don't flame me ;-) There is an 'old' DOS program I know of that can format a disk at 1972K. The program is called 2m and comes with source. You can download it from: http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/diskutil.html You need the files 2m30.zip (250K) and 2m30src.zip (213K) Hope this helps a bit, Onno (ebbin200@tech.nhl.nl)