I think you mis-understood Werner. His suggestion (& mine) is to use a
commercially produced disk that has _not_ been formatted by either of your
machines, but that came pre-formatted with dat/programs on it (like the
original Workbench disk) and stayed that way (without ever having been written
to).
Peforming a diskcopy on such a disk would be an excellent test of a drive's
alignment. Any drive that returned read errors is the likely culprit of being
out of alignment.
It is cheaper nowadays to replace a drive than to pay to have it fixed, by the
way. If you have any "techie" friends with lots of time on their hands,
however, they might be willing to give it a go (re-aligning the drive, that
is).
matt, thanks, I'll try it. Any chance it could be dirt in the drive? I'm in the
Big Apple and I workwithmy windows open. Onnce when my old machine needed
repair and I took it to the shop, the guy took one look at it and asked me if I
smoked. I don't, but the machine was filled with soot. jeff