This is a frustrating subject to try to find information about, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. So far this year, I've had this problem happen 3 times on two separate drives. Both drives are Maxtor; one is 80gb and the other is 60gb. Here's what happens: Neither of these drives are primary masters. Upon booting into windows, the drives will show up as an unformatted drive. Files can be recovered, but it's annoying. All diagnostics run on these disks shows them to be fine, including low-level formats and burn-in tests. Each time this has happened, the operating system has been Windows XP Pro. The 80gb drive has always used FAT32, and the 60gb used NTFS. Between the first occurance and the next two, the motherboard and processor have been changed out, and Windows XP Pro has been re-installed completely twice. Of the the three times this has occured, the last two times have occured in the past month, the third immediately after I had just finished recovering files from the second crash. The first two occurances happene don the 80gb FAT32 drive, the latest on the 60gb NTFS drive. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Doing a search for "Hard Drive Failures Windows XP" brings up an awful lot of results to sift through... I do not have my system specs with me at the moment, but I can post them if it would help.

How do you have 'em set up,do you have one slaved to your primary master and the other slaved to your secondary master.(Which would mean you have 3 physical drives) or what