Hi Carol, I have a 500 Western Digital drive as purchased from Maplins, my drive switches off if left on at the mains and not accessed. It also switches off when the PC is turned off and the mains to the drive left on. Mine hasn't done the other things you spoke of. Hope this helps. Ibby Karbhari • Phone: 020 7193 8755 • Mobile: 07017 41 41 41 • If you have Skype installed on your Pc You can also talk with me on Skype by clicking on my username IbbyKar E-Mail: ibbyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Site Visit: http://www.moving-mountains.com -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:52 PM To: Access UK Mailing List Subject: [access-uk] the new hard drive recently purchased Hi all, I have noticed a couple of things about this new Western Digital hard drive recently purchased. First, it appears to switch off when not in use. This would seem to be after a fair amount of time. Has anyone ideas as to whether this is design or faulty? Second, when I came to use it on my home network today, I found that its permissions appeared to have disappeared and I had to go back to my desktop and say again that I really did want to share this drive. Again, would you consider this to be design or faulty? Perhaps I'll have to call for technical help but thought I'd ask on list first. -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.1/963 - Release Date: 20/08/2007 17:44 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq