Bob,

Can you give us some details about your systems?

For instance, PC brand, processor, RAM, HD sizes, Operating System and 'level', SCSI vs IDE vs ?, BIOS brands and dates, etc, video adapter brands/ram/drivers.

I have *never* heard anyone here report a single problem regarding the FAT system with FP/VFP. There have been problems related to large disks (bigger than 2 gig) but never more than erroneously reporting free space available.

Do you keep a relatively "clean" system or are you the type who finds anything new and uploads it to see how it owrks out?

Finally, VFP is not close at all to your good ol' FP, and if you are basically trying to use the basic FP command set to create a VFP program, then I would have some reservations regarding the functioning of that *whole* command set in VFP.

You may consider your video drivers to be "industry standard" but I wonder how many people here have actully heard of them? Seems to me that you have proven to yourself that they don't work as you wish they would (failures, color depth, etc) so getting a more recognized one may well be the smart move anyways.

Jim N

>Another update --
>
>I installed all the video drivers I dared to, and VFP6 still blew
>up every time I tried to save any report in my little baby project.
>This is with the driver that came with the PC, plus VGA and SVGA.
>
>Not only that, but it scrambled the FAT tables on my hard drive.
>It took a few successive scandisk operations to rid the drive of
>cross-linked files, files with the wrong size in the FAT tables,
>and files that were not in the directories that the FAT tables had
>in their indexes. One of these files was my video driver on one
>occasion. This is really dangerous and could be very destructive.
>
>Then I took some stuff off of another machine to make room for a
>second installation of VFP6. I may need some of that again, and
>I don't know if I can reconstruct it, but I have to get this dumb
>thing done or write off the last two weeks as revenue challenged.
>The old machine has an ARK Logic 2000PV PCI Video adapter, totally
>different manufacturer and everything, and it also blew up when I
>tried to save the first report in the project.
>
>It also scrambled some of the FAT indexes. I had done a clean
>scandisk right before this operation, and afterwards files were
>crosslinked, and incorrectly indexed as to size and folder.
>
>However, it is not blowing up so far when I do other work. So
>I finally get to use this Thing for something besides exercising
>my patience threshold.
>
>I'll keep posting here for the benefit of anybody who comes along
>after me on this path. But beware of rogue applications that
>scramble your drives.
>
>-- Bob