<<This may or may not apply. I've noticed in various harddrive benchmark
programs that the level of disk fragmentation can impact the result of the
test severely. If you haven't done so recently, try a defrag and give it
another go. You might also be able to override the test. I believe it only
attemps to test the first time you try to use a drive, so presumably it
should be possible to manually set it to "ok" in registry or an ini file
somewhere.>>

Thanks for replying. Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with the term
registry, or how I might change the speed manually <novice>. Any tips? Thanks
so much,
J