Preface: I'm concerned of the leaving of James Newton and all that lead to that unfortunate decision. I wish things could be different but accept his need for some separation. Good luck, James. I hope your leave isn't permanent. My Problem: My pc was unable to boot from an older Western Digital hard drive. I have replaced it and reloaded the OS, but I need some of the data on the old. I've tried to switch it as a slave to the now current boot disk, but the system doesn't "see" it as a drive. Even tried a WD utility and it doesn't see it. This happened suddenly. One Monday morning it would not boot. The drive does spin up. Anyone with some insight for me to try recovery myself?? Peter -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body