Oh, Here's what you do. You set up the program in windows and then when the pc starts, it runs in the back ground. I doubt you can do it in dos either. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hart Larry" <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:51 PM Subject: Re: Running Spinrite from Linux? Thanks Janina--and-David. First of all, Janina, in windows its my d drive, but in Linux its hdb and I was getting thousands of io errors from that drive. Now David, while GRC claims many operating systems can use spinrite, they still don't say how to run the program from linux, if we even can. Hart _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list