Well, I already ran into some trouble... and I don't know how to fix it :( Yesterday it was working just peachy fine. I managed to get all of my files transferred over to the external drive and did my reformat. Today I login to move files from the external drive to the laptop hard drive. I got a message from the external drive saying that the device was a high speed USB one and required to be used in a high speed USB host, and I was asked to search my computer for such a host. An automatic search showed that this computer doesn't have any high speed USB ports. I was given the option to continue and told that the device would not work at optimum speed. I accepted that. I managed to move all my folders back to the right place and left the poser runtimes on the external drive. And I had no difficulty in doing it. It was terrific. I noticed that the drive itself is 19 gigs, and with my runtimes on there, there should have been 8 gigs of free space... but it was only showing 4.2 gigs of free space. I decided to check to see if there were any hidden folders. There was one folder. I decided to defrag that drive as I had moved all kinds of stuff on and off of it. So I started the defrag. It looked like defrag was moving files that were no longer there. I saw that it was hung up on "WS_FTP95".. which wasn't even on the drive. So I decided to open that hidden folder (I didn't touch the files... I just opened the folder to see what was in there). There were a bunch of other folders called "Resore....etc". Which is probably where all the missing gigs of space were allocated to. It looked like Defrag was hung up on moving that one file... so I cancelled the defrag and tried to exit. My whole system froze up solid. After 5 minutes it was clear that the only way to unfreeze it (ctrl alt del wouldn't even work), was to shut off the computer.... so I pressed "OFF". When I logged back on, I got the device notification for the drive again, and the popup window about the high speed stuff. Only this time when I clicked it, it showed me my 2 USB ports and told me that there were no High Speed ports on this machine. I clicked "OK", and the device notification icon in the try disappeared. I decided to try Admin Tools and "Computer Management" to search for the device... but I can't access computer management now when the external drive is plugged into my USB port. And now when it's plugged into the laptop, I get the following message: "The specified I/O operation on DeviceHarddisk1DR2 was not completed before the time-our period expired. Cancel Try Again Continue" I've tried Cancel, Try again, and Continue... and none of them allow me to use the external drive. The drive isn't visible in my computer, and there is no longer an icon in the tray. I've tried everything I know... shutting off the drive... unplugging it. Turning it on and then plugging it in. Plugging it in and then turning it on. Rebooting the laptop with the device plugged in and turned on. Rebooting the laptop with the device plugged in but not turned on... etc. I still can't get the drive back online so I can use it :( If anyone has any ideas... can you please PM me? I"m at my wits end here :(

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi