Thanks mlord

I was wondering if rebuilding the drive might work, but wanted to see if there was something I could do that would avoid re-loading all my music <g> (and I wouldn't know how to code something to write to just those sectors)

Curious though... why wouldn't the hard drive remap those sectors on its own when it encountered them? Not knowing much about hard drive mechanics, what would the difference be from that compared to writting zero'd data like you mentioned?

Reason I ask is that the only time I have problems is when trying to upload music, which in essence would be writting to the disk. It fails, causing emplode to be hung / fail with errors