I was running Windows XP Pro on a Western Digital ATA 133 hard drive with 250 GB space. The drive is less than a year old was running fine until about a month ago. Tried to repair several different times but no luck. I treid to access information by having another XP system running and slaving the problem drive but is says that it is not accessable. Console management does not even see it as being formated as NTFS that it was. I need the information that is in the MyDocuments folder off the drive the rest I could live without. I thank you all in advance for any advise you can give Tom.