The logic may be suspect here. Have you considered running spinrite? PcCowboy wrote: > My wife has a WD 320 gig drive that she uses as a storage drive. It is > only a year old. > For the past 2 weeks she has been finding her computer locked down. > Yesterday when she rebooted, that drive was no longer showing in XP. > It wasn't even showing up in the bios anymore. > > I took it out and hooked it in my computer. My computer sees it. > I ran the WD diagnostic for Dos and got the error code 0007. > That is something to do with the SMART. > > I then ran the WD Diag. for Windows. The drive appears with a green > arrow for pass > under the SMART tab. But when I run a quick test I get the message that > " the > quick test could not complete. Status code-07" > What caused this strange problem? Should we trust this drive? > How can I return it for a RMA without any errors codes to report? > > Pc -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 112663246 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/index.html?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.