Thanks JACLAZ for pointing me to the right direction, and also for posting up a wealth of information on this site. Yes, I was in a hurry. You should take it a little easy though... seems like you are angry half the time in all your posts and might be becoming a bit of a RACIST, lol... read "only two little indians remain" in... http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page__st__3345 Seriously though, thank you. Will spend some time looking around the other pages to get my HD issue resolved.