will I be endangering any files by trying to copy the fids from drive 1 to drive 0?

I don't think you'll loose anything if you manage to get all fids onto you sound (sic) drive. As I posted earlier, it worked fine for me. When Mike sent the instructions he stressed that I needed to delete all fids on the other drive (the primary on my Mk2) before trying to rebuild the list, though. He also said that fids are stored on the drive that holds the most empty space, so I guess that all fids are sequentially numbered and allocated to either of the drives.

I bet you're OK if you manage to copy them onto your other drive.

BTW: Once the fids are safe, I'd run empeg's formatting/stress test utility on the bad drive before I'd ditch it . . .

Henno
mk2 6 nr 6