Sounds like my IBM (Ouch I hear you cry) Deckstar 75GPX is on its way out. I hibernated (I know it sound strange not being a laptop but it boots so much quicker) my PC last night and on boot up this morning it failed to come out of hibernation due to what appears to be a sector error of somesort. Two questions 1) is there away with PCs to mark bad sectors, as there was with my Amiga? 2) Lurking around here just recently as I do I think Seagates have been getting the thumbs up, any particular one? My IBM is 30Gb so 40 or above would do. Bashy ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Davidson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:14 AM Subject: [techtalk] Re: Disk errors in Event Viewer