If you still have Windows installed I would test it there. If not you can download a floppy disk image e.g from bootdisk.com and use dd to write a floppy. You should not get an error afterward and you should be able to boot the disk. I think if you lookup the HDD wiping tool dBan and it might have exact instructions on how to make a boot floppy in Linux. As to how you would access the floppy from Linux just to read and write normal files, I don't know. None of my machines have floppy drives. When I need to write a floppy it is always from Windows to make a disk. Even then, these days in Windows I just use a virtual floppy drive and make it bootable via LAN or CD... the floppy drive is slowly becoming a relic.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org