On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:45 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > It came with some software, most of which I deleted. It pops a few > windows on WinXP, one of which gives you the choice of entering a > password or deleting all of the data. I like this choice. I give it > the password. An educated guess would be that this is the problem. It probably doesn't appear (to anything) as a drive until a password is entered, until then it's probably just some special device that requires special handling. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.