I have a slave in mine as well that I could dump everything onto so once I format the drive I can then dump everything back onto it with no problem? On 8/12/03 11:43 AM, "fdutra1 at attbi.com" <fdutra1 at attbi.com> wrote: > Sounds very similar to a problem (squeaky HD with SPOD and long waits > with certain apps) I had with with the original 30 gb Deathstar HD in > my G4 dual 450 Gigabit Ethernet. It finally hung (squeaks & the spod) > on Photoshop or Netscape and wouldn't boot. I was able to quit out > from the original 9.0 disk and managed to swap all the data to a new > 40 gb disk mounted internally as slave. After running Techtool Pro on > the bad drive and finding corrupt directory files, I reformatted and > have been using it for backup ever since with no problem, and the > squeaks that had been freaking me out since day one are gone too. > > Frank > -- Ryan Randall Flagg www.randallflagg.ws