I didn't tell the BIOS that I had a 5 inch floppy because my options were 3.5 inch and none. mtools did the job anyway. I should have thought of them sooner. >From other responses, the reason I could read the directory, but not other data is probably that the incorrectly autodetected filesystem had a compatible directory format. mtools was smarter. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."