ron.. Maxtor drives are pain in the buts. Mine cannot be a Master drive with anything else, It has to be the slave. Then when installing a new motherboard it wasn't working and had to go to Maxtor and get a new mini bios to run the drive. grrrrr I keep mine as data drive only, even though it's damaged now. Maxtor knows about the problems with their drives and won't fix them SIgh Cherokee... give wiremonger about a week to see if they come back. Sometimes they have problems with their domain but usually it's back within a week