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Freestone: thanks for the tip. I found some similar information at the Microsoft website, but none of the suggestions worked. Looks like I'll be copying from one drive to another.... Sigh....

Freestone: Thanks for the tip. I'll give it try and let you know what happens. I don't have access to the machine in question for another 10 days or so, so expect another notification after that. Jurgen: Yikes! So do you run FAT32 on everything?

Lemon: Thanks for the additional info. Actually, I tried changing drive letters to no effect. And I have tried every version of the controller driver possible, including one supplied by Maxtor and three different versions downloaded from Promise; changing drivers seemed to have no effect...

wolluf and Lemon13 - thanks for your replies. I am afraid that I'll have to take wolluf's suggestions. I've already broken down the old machine into it's component parts, but I've got another Win2K box that I can load the old drives in and start swapping data. I may try, last resort, to get...

Manufacturers of drives are driven by their marketing departments who report drive sizes in Base 10 figures to make them seem bigger. I.e., 250 GB = 250,000,000,000 bytes. In reality storage and memory space within a computer must be calculated in terms of Base 2 math and that's what WinXP...

This is exactly the same problem that I am having which is referenced in this thread: thread751-883655. There is one reply to my original post with a workaround, but it's quite intensive and requires: 1) moving the "RAW" drive back to the original machine 2) copy its data to another drive in...

Just for your reference. There is usually a small hole on the front of CD/DVD drives. The purpose of the hole is to provide a mechanical method of opening the door for cases such as yours - when the drive stops responding to software or switch commands. One can stick a straightened paper clip...

Kudos to the one(s) who can solve this. I've been working on it for two days without success. I had an HP Pavilion PC running Windows 2000 Professional with five HDDs in it. All drives except for the boot (C:)drive were NTFS. The PC was used as a server for storage on a home network. It was...