A few mounths ago my comp and my external drive died on me ! But I don't quit easaly ! I searched and asked questions until I found a solution. Had to buy a new comp in the meantime . Kewl what you can find when you ar serching for help !!! There is a wonderful program called TestDisk that saved my harddrive on my old tower and then it rebooted my F drive ( WD My Book ) The link is this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Just wanted to share and yes my pics are fine for the ones who have tried other programs. Ok so now I have windows 7 and not loving it so far !!!!! !Back at cha soon !!!