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Ed – just a wild guess, but perhaps your drive isn't coming up to speed? Can you hear it actually spin up? If the drive gets sticky (I forget which Seagates did this) or the 12volt power isn't up to snuff, a hard drive will simply stop trying to spin up the platters (normal safety op). Try kicking the power switch on/off/on a coupla times when this happens again. Maybe that'll "kickstart" the platters up to speed. Luck!