Ohhhh I feel the pain. Oh poop! I have some Quantums. One is in use, two are on the shelf waiting for use. Ahhhhh! The Maxtors I've used all die in less than a year but Western Digitals all keep running years after the install. Odd huh? I just had my FIC AZ11 Mobo die last week forcing me to make my AMD 1.4Giger Poser ready so I can get back to using it. Ever try to set up swapable drives with Win2000? It became Win666. Registry? What registry? The horror! That made it two machines down in one week end. Ahhhhhh! I realy feeeeel the pain, yours and mine.