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EdV: Thanks for the reply. I decided to try it one more time before writing back to you and this time the %$#@*&% thing worked as given and the drive icon showed up on the Workbench. I just can't figure it out. I tried it several different ways before including the way I did it tonight and nothing worked. Must be the phase of the moon! However, after get the drive ion up, I clicked on it and asked to format the disk which it started to do. It runs right along until the 100% on the bar graph at that point it go to initialize the disk and then it gets format failure: error 254. What is error 254? However, this is not all the story. If I put in an old disk and check it with the HDTools and then take it out and put in a clean (new) disk and call it just the same as before with all the same parameters, then the disk will show up on the Workbench and will format and initialize. There is some place that new information is not being written that does not have to do with the info on the cartridge disk itself. There is some place something like a mountlist where new names and partitions are not being written. But the info there can be used for a new cartridge. I would like to know what is not being changed and why. Regards, Norm PS. One problem is the new WB3.1 manuals don't give any info on the HDTools, it refers you to the "Amiga Hard Drive User's Guide". …. where does one get this Guide?