Al,

Thanks I hadn't thought of that, but I don't have a second box with sata drives... and once I unplugged the 1TB drive in an attempt to get a repair to run, windows booted up, I uninstalled the last patch, pluged the drive back and windows is back to hanging so it looks like this second drive might have flaked out on me.

Now I gotta see if I can get some drive diagnostics running on it.

>Various Linux-based LiveCDs can now read and write to NTFS filesystems.
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>You could install the problem drive as a secondary drive in another computer (i.e. mount it as some other drive e.g. Z:) and manipulate its files to your heart's content.