Hi,

On having my last attempt at getting this thing going before buying a new firewire card.

Tried to format in DOS (as was getting nowhere in XP, just failure message), at command line "format f: /fs:fat32"

DOS has given me the message (after looking like it was going to do something for while!)

"Invalid Media or Track 0 Bad - Disk unusable".

As far as I can tell the percentage never went above 0 complete.

Is this more evidence of a VIA chipset firewire card being needed (I've been getting the Firmare failure etc message on trying to restore as well) ... or evidence my brand new ipoid is shafted?!!

Any advice/thoughts appreciated.

Thanks again.
Keith