Frederick Navarro posts (clipped):--- <<<< I haven't tried this though, but I heard from many people that this works. Try to place your hd in your freezer at least 30 minutes, 1 hour much better and place it back into your PC.>>>> Just a little warning. This is an extreme measure and is meant as a last resort where one is sure that the HDD is toast and tries to recover bits of data in sort of installments (freezer to-pc-to freezer-to pc....cycles.) there are procedures to put in freezer and connecting to pc without moisture. I would suggest you browse the pc build archives for aug/sep. sorry off hand I do not remember the header. HTH and good luck----Venkat Viswanathan Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com