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John, I don't think I can help you, but I have come up with a workaround for my problem that is not too inconvenient for my customers. The workaround is to use the LABEL command after formatting a drive to make sure that the volume label appears in the root directory since format only puts it in the boot sector. This is not too much to ask the user and seems to work reliably after this is done. I'm sorry but I don't have an answer for your other questions. Call MS support directly and get them to work on it. Larry Bank Read action !