> From: Clyde Wilson [mailto:clydew@clydew.net] > Sent: 05 May 2000 16:13 > > Check to see if all your cables are plugged in... > not just for the drive, but for everything. > Check both ends of the cable, sometimes they pull > free of the motherboard. Thanks for the suggestion Clyde, but that's not the problem. I put the drive into a working machine and the same whirring symptoms were there when it was being accessed. Cheers, Paul