At 17:10 23/05/2004, you wrote: >Hi Andrew > >On 23-May-04, Andrew Davidson wrote: > > > No, that's bollicks. They'll replace drives without a code. > >Do you have any particular method of bypassing their >online RMA system without a code ? Just select "Drive is no longer recognised by the system" - you can't give a failure code if the PC can't see it, can you? :) This method has worked for over a year and maybe 20 drives. Some drives were total flame-outs, others just noisy or a few bad sectors. Andrew