Here's a very interesting story of how one guy got his dead hard drive to work again. I saw the link to this in one of the Lockergnome newsletters, read it and was amazed that the guy was successful. I'm posting this cause its just another tool at your hands when you have a hard drive that's not functioning and you need to retrieve the data. http://www.deadharddrive.com/ ---Troth To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk