--- Josh Keady <joshkeady at msn.com> wrote: > You can test the drive itself, assuming you have a > SCSI card in the PC. > You will have to repartition and reformat the > drive in order to check > it without some special 3rd part utilities (that I'm > sure are quite > obscure as Win 9x/XP doesn't support HFS or HFS+) > As long as you don't > care about the drive's contents, you can go ahead > and format it as > FAT32 (Win 9x native format) and try some large > read/write activity (or > Scan Disk) with the PC, then put it in the Mac and > reformat it as HFS or HFS+. I've found it very quick to FDISK and FORMAT drives as FAT16 then move to the Mac and Erase to HFS, or do FAT32 then Erase to HFS+. The "under structure" of the formats is very close, close enough that the Erase command takes care of any changes very quickly. ===== "You never have to repair or replace what you leave out of the design." William "Bill" Powell Lear, inventor of the 8-Track tape and the Learjet. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/