Susan,

Just page down and find the original thread with the Subject - "Format". Read through all of the replies to your original message. When you want to reply to one of the replies, click on the Reply, and you message will be listed directly under the message you are replying to. This will keep all of the information in a thread. It has the added advantage of causing an e-mail to be sent to those of us that have been replying to your messages, informing us that there is a new message in the thread. I asked a question in the thread below, under your original Format message, that you have not anwered.

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Steve

OK how is this?
I did find out that my problem may lie in DOS.
Got in touch with the maker of my CD-RW
He told me to go to MS DOS propmt
typed in autoexe.bat something lik that and there was nothing there just the screen,
then start up run out in sys and nothing there.
Thanks Steve