Hi, on http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ format-0.91n.zip you can now find FreeDOS FORMAT 0.91n Changes: made the changes from 0.91m to 0.91M official (extra Win98 checks), added /Z:longhelp for extra verbose (3 screen pages long) help screen, added some floppy tweaking (the old 720k in 1440k drive problem). I am told that 0.91m did work for 360k (only seems to work if you use an HD medium if drive is 1200k???), 400k, 1200k, 1440k, 1680k, 1743k. The tester (Konstantin ;-)) has an 1200k and an 1440k drive, so no idea about performance on 360k and 720k drives. Chances are that 720k in 1440k drive still does not work, but you never know (just added some more tweaks!). The extra Win98 checks should now avoid Win98 tripping over itself - it does set "filesystem info sector" position to 0 ("none" would be -1), so the old FORMAT versions did not fix that and in the end Win98 would overwrite the boot sector with the filesystem info (statistics) sector at the same place. Now the filesystem info sector is relocated to sector 1. Symptoms are things like the filesystem vanishing after a reboot. I do not know if this is related to the bug which makes Win98 and/or FreeDOS see no root directory (and if you try to create files, the directory entries are placed into the boot sector, arghhh!). So: HEY YOU. You with the Win98 system and the trashable FAT32 partition. Please FORMAT x: /d /v:test32 >format.log that partition and use MS SCANDISK and Linux or DOS DOSFSCK (of dosfstools) on the result. Save the boot sector with COPYBS of the SYSLINUX project. Then reboot and do the analysis steps (all except FORMAT, obviously) again. Then write >> 16 files to the root dir of that drive and do the analysis a third time. Compare the results... Be prepared to send some logged data to me (note that my spam filter is very strict now to keep that new virus away, you may have to re-send in another way if I did not receive the files). Thanks a lot! Having no Win98 myself I can only tell you that FORMAT for FAT32 seems to work fine when run inside the FreeDOS system (kernel: FreeDOS), so it is very hard to find out what exactly goes wrong with Win98-DOS. Happy formatting, yet again. Eric.