I think we're confusing fat 16 and fat 32. The 2 gig limit applies for fat 16, but when you run fdisk at the dos prompt, it says something like "your computer system can support a hard disk larger than-----" "Do you want to access this larger disk?" It is before coffee and way too early in the morning for me to try and figure out how they do it. I don't recall the numbers, I remember discussing this stuff years ago on cluster size. That is the smallest amount of space a file would take no matter if it were a one byte file. I think it started out at 2 then 4 then 8 then 16 then 32. Way to early to figure this out!!! 73s Butch Bussen wa0vjr