For unknown reasons I cannot access my A drive. I get the message that "A drive is not ready". I have a disk in it, but it will not display. It isn't the drive because I bought a new one and had the same problem. I bought a new cable and that didn't help. It shows up as working in device manager in Windows and in safe mode. The BIOS displays it during the boot. I checked to make sure the cable was pin 1 to pin 1. If it were the cable or the connection the BIOS would show "drive failure". The only thing I can think of now is that the mobo connector died, but I would think that would give me a message "drive failure" during the boot. If it isn't the drive or the cable or the connection, or the mobo, what is left to check? Any ideas will be investigated. Thanks, Joel The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com