CompuServe Messages

Gus, Since the files were mysteriously erased yesterday I don't have their names and exact sizes at hand. I had 8 files. As I recall, they were something like this: SEG_1 65,627,192 SEG_3 40,672,111 SEG_3A 3,984,999 SEG_4 112,000,000 SEG_5 3,000,000 SEG_6 192,000,123 PHOTO_1 3,398,999 PHOTO_1A 3,999,837 I could copy SEG_1 .ANI over to DOS using the PAR controls and it seemed to work O.K. However, when I copied SEG_4.ANI using the same controls the DOS file size was 65,627,192, same as SEG_!.ANI. The same thing happened with all the other files. They all showed up in my DOS directory as 65,627,192 (useless of course). On top of that, if I did a backup and restore(to a different directory) on file SEG_4.ANI I would get the file information for SEG_1.ANI. Go figure! I suspect something may be going on with my hard drive. When run PARTEST and look at the directory sectors I seem some file name entries for files that were erased ages ago. Should a format wipe the entire disk clean, or will it leave these meaningless artifacts lying around? Thanks again. Ed Banta