On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: > Sorry I read that before the second cup of '. I find that both Toast > and Disk Utility erase the disk easily. I've never used Toast - Disk Utility can sometimes take a while to get started when it goes through its volume analysis bit, where Disk Copy starts up fast and seems to begin erasing more quickly than Disk Utility. I expect they're all the same speed, once they're started. SR