Sanborn, John wrote: > > We have some Western Digital hard drives that our Compaq towers report 'bad > controller' errors. I've successfully placed the HDs into generic PCs, so I > tend to think that it's the PC that the problem. > > HD: Western Digital Caviar 21200 / 1281.9MB > CPU: Compaq DeskPro 2000 5133 / BIOS 05/01/98 latest update > > Any ideas? > Thanks > John Hi John and I can feel your pain as I tried to put a Maxtor 8.4 into a Compaq 4770 and it would not do anything. I was finally able to get a WD 6.4GIG to work perfectly though if that helps. Michael Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org