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Bill, >> 4) So, I ripped the newly installed second EIDE out, and started-up 3DS and tested it without problems. (???) Well; it sounds like you've isolated it to some kind of conflict with the new H.D. Did you let the BIOS do the auto-configuration of the new H.D.? Did you try another set of drive cables, in case there was in intermittent short or break that was scrambling things? Are you using a "disk manager" that came with the H.D. to enable 32 bit disk access in Windows? If so, run FDISK /MBR to rewrite the master boot record, which will get rid of the disk manager, after which you'll have to FDISK and FORMAT the disk again. FDISK /MBR *should* give you the option of selecting which drive, but I'd have your good drive backed up just to be sure. With the Premiere II, you don't need a disk manager to read the larger drives; you can just run them bare right out of the box, and I've found disk managers are far more trouble than they're worth, and the speed increase they're supposed to give you in Windows aren't that significant, especially on a Pentium. If you already *aren't* running a disk manager or overlay, and have tried a replacement drive cable, I'd suggest running FDISK on the new drive, deleting all the partitions, including the primary, then start over with FDISK and FORMAT again. If you *still* have problems, I'd think it's probably a fault in the IDE translation circuitry on the H.D. circuit board, and I'd try a new drive. John