One of the greatest problems with Windows 2K / XP is the way it handles floppy I/O, and it seems to have very big problems with our direct write methods of writing CoCo Disks. There is an article in the Vol 2, Issue one of the CoCoNutz news letter on http://www.coco3.com/ on how to create a DOS boot floppy to make your life much easier =) check it out! DJ