Gregory, Try running this as an experiment: fdisk /dev/hdc The ideal is that you recieve a message "Command (m for help):" If you get this, then you are able to speak to the drive. This has been the defining method for me though there may be other/better ways. If you get this far you can enter "p" and it will list the partitions it sees. I would say to keep in mind there could be many other reasons beside hardware for your not being able to "see" the drive. In fact, that is the last guess. The ATA66 specification and all others SHOULD fall back to the older specifications when need be. In fact, when you first boot in Windows it is using the bios to read the drive. If you can boot to DOS mode and see your drive it is very unlikely that the hardware is the problem. More likely is that somewhere you have software translation on the drive. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
