Western Digital has a small, very nice diagnostic program on their website
(www.wdc.com) that fully tests any WD hard drive. As I recall it needs to be
run from the DOS prompt, is easy to use, and generates a nice report.
Karl Gottshalk
> For the first few months after installing the WD drive as the slave all
> was well, then it disappeared from all drive listings. As I was using
> that drive to archive copies of files stored elsewhere there was no
> great lost, I just assumed that being an older drive it had given up the
> ghost. But then it reappeared in the drive listings months later, and
> has been appearing/disappearing as it wants to ever since. It is as
> likley to be seen as it is to be missing whenever I boot the machine.
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