Bob,

I've never had FAT corruption due to any version of FoxPro. You metnion video drivers, but it maybe a printer driver issue. What printer driver are you using?

>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