dl65 thankyou for your fast reply.sorry about the delay in my answer. yes to all of your question. As you know computers were put here to drive us mad.bought a new A drive put it in would not work. took it out and put in an other A drive out of one of my old computers the old one worked fine. ran a scandisk and a defrag, everything working just right. put new one back in ran scandisk and was told that there were to many bad clusters ,and to get a new A drive. so thats what I did . new one won't work and my old one wont work now. ran a virus scan and came put clean. went to control panel, systems, propertys, the driver is fine and working . here is message I get when I try to use A drive. A:\ is not accessible The system cannot read from the specified drive. retry cancel. When I start the computer I get my post beep All is well. thanks again for your help,and all other help you can send will be greatly recived .happydog
