Nothing shows up as being wrong with the drive. No matter what test I run, the drive itself appears fine. It seems to be some Windows XP induced problem. After this latest reinstall (about 2.5 months ago) and then formatting of the 320Gig drive I never had the problem at all until a few nights ago when I restarted because I hadn't restarted in weeks and I try to reboot every now and then.

I had Ubuntu dual-booting before and it never had a problem. It was always Windows.

This isn't my boot drive (if that makes a difference) and I have it formatted with NTFS.

I never got a hold of Western Digital today. Hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow.

Rene

P.S. If WD offers me a swap for a SATA drive I will jump at that... hopefully that will cure my problems.