I would download Maxtor's drive diagnostics utility and run it on that
drive. You do have a recent data backup, don't you? If not, this might be a
real good time. :)
Jerome

>
>  Hello All,
> Over the last month or so, upon booting up computer a screen has shown up
> with "No Hard Drive Found".
> After re-booting, it worked fine.  This has happened 2-3 times. Tonite, I
> had to re-boot twice.  Is this a warning of things to come? AMD AthlonXP
> 1700+ Maxtor 5T040H4  40GB HD 1.024RAM Windows XP Home SP-2 Build 2600
> Thanx,
> stephen r stanfield
>
>

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