Hello, again gents. What you suggested did not work i am at work right now and have tried it on several pc's here and they are responding the same way my pc was. I also before coming to work took the harddrive out of the case and test it it through an ide cable. That went even worse, my computer detected it, but i still could not access it and when i ran a wd diagnostics it when into error state and stated the the hard drive only had 17gigs on it. Afterwards i tried it on my xbox and once again it worked fine. Now i am here at work and connected it to several pc's and it says, you know the found new hardware and device ready for use pop up, but i could not access the drive. It is still in the device manager but i cannot access it. Any more suggestions??? And why is it working on my xbox 360 but not on a pc. Thanks again for your timely responses.