Hi Nick, no, I didn't, the upgrade was from the Fujitsu site and was a self installing exe file. Disk manager initially sees the drive. But, as soon as I try to access it, either to change the partition, format it or even just look at it, the drive vanishes from the drives list. I'll have a look at ...

Anyone know why a post would jump (or be moved) from PC's forum to Notebooks when the post concerns a PC hard drive?

I have an MPG3204AT disk which has been given the wrong firmware. XP can see the disk when I first look in Control Panel admin tools, but as soon as I try to access the drive it vanishes from the disk listing.

Anyone got any ideas on recovery - or is it a File B job?