I got to the last part and issued the m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 and it's now been several MINUTES and nothing has come back on the term screen. The drive is spinning and is not making any unusual noises, so what does this mean? I'm dead in the water with everything powered up at the moment. EDIT: Hey, I went away for another few minutes and now have some stuff on the screen: F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewr ite Retries = 0000 Okay, it finally came back: Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewr ite Retries = 0000 User Partition Format 3% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00004AA5, ErrCode 000 00080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 30 secs User Partition Format 3% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 0002F7DE, ErrCode 000 00080, Elapsed Time 1 mins 00 secs User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 1 mins 00 secs Zone re-format was skipped. Is this okay? Can I now power things down?