After playing around with my new floppy drive emulator from BMOW, on my GS which has the dying/dead Vulcan IDE drive, I've learned a few tricks and found a few things I thought I'd share. There are several places online to get the software for the Vulcan controller, including a great deal of Apple II GS software on www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za When resizing partitions, you can only go left, right, up, or down, you cannot enter a number. But to speed up the number, you can hold down the CONTROL key while holding the arrow key. And here is the most valuable piece of information I found. While the partition manager seems to format for DOS 3.3, PRODOS, PASCAL, and C/PM, there is the nice hidden option. When the FORMAT option is highlighted, if you type AE, it will prompt you to do a low level format. And that helped me fix the drive I was having so many issues with. While it still has a couple bad sectors early in the drive, I will just make 2 partitions, one blank one, covering the bad section, and hopefully not have issues afterwards. :-) I'll let you know what happens. The floppy emu is a great device as it also acts as Smartport devices/hard drives, Mac floppies, or Mac HD20 Hard drive devices. :-) -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?