Thanks Tony-- You told me what I needed to know. I have 120megs out of 160megs on the external I'm talking about so really don't want to transfer it all but I'm going to have to. Going to buy the 250gig Maxtor CompUSA has this week for $99.00, format it Fat 32, then transfer my stuff there. Then re-format the original drive Fat32 as well. Learn something new every day on this internet thing. Thanks again. Ron