Dear Robert, You have various options. However, at this stage, your primary concern is the 16 GB of data, and not the drive itself. Remove that Maxtor drive, put it back into the external case, and copy the data to your primary (internal) drive. After that, you can follow the guidelines that will be provided by other subscribers to this group, or else you can just format the Maxtor drive. (If you cannot copy the data to the primary drive after removing the Maxtor drive, then something changed or was damaged in that drive while installing it in the computer). David Grossman > Is there a way to fix this so I can copy the data to the pr > imary drive, and either reformat or replace the Maxtor drive? > > Thanks! > Robert Bishop Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com