On Friday 20 June 2003 06:43 am, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I have had problems like this before. Spent lots of time trying to recover > the drive but wound up replacing it. > > Save the time - replace the drive. I tend to agree with you. I just didn't have a new drive in the budget and wanted to squeeze just a little more life out of this one. Ah, well. It is not if but when for hard disk failures. Alan