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thanks pricechild, your idea worked a treat - I suppose I've now got to sort out a dodgy usb port!

trying that now, thanks - I'll let it run for 24 hours before posting again

I've got a large USB external HDD for backups etc which is behaving a bit oddly. It seems to (and I can't describe it any better than this) lose contact with Windows for a few moments and then makes contact again. Which is OK most of the time, but when I'm writing a large file to it and this happens, I get a write error message balloon from the system tray area. Any ideas anyone?