Acadia, there may be another culpret with your maxtor external drive disapearing, if you have Win XP SP2 you might want to read the article in the maxtor knowlege base entitled "1394 External Storage drive stops responding in Windows XP SP2". I have been having problems with my external drive and it seems to be that XP is rejecting the driver for some reason. I reload the drivers unplug and replug the power on the drive and plug it back into the computer and Windows recognizes it again.

Message edited on: 12/13/2005 11:07