|I had a strange problem with my Maxtor 5.2 GB hard drive last night. I was |playing a game (Forsaken) and when I quit the game, I immediately got a blue |screen with disk read/write error, press any key to continue. Pressed any |key and the system is just hung up. Drive light is on. Press restart. Go |through post and then get hard disk failure message, "Press del to enter |.... F1 to continue." F1 eventually leads to insert a system disk message. |At some point I get a message that there is no FAT table. Boot from a |floppy and try to look at C, nothing there. Try to Fdisk ... get message - |"no fixed disk present." Restart and go into setup. Go to IDE HDD auto |detect tab and manually select the HD. Restart and the system boots all the |way to a "GDI.exe missing, reinstall windows message". Restart, boot to |safe mode. Nothing is apparently wrong. Restart again and all is well. I would check my connections if I were you, maybe they are loose. ...James ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>