I have both a C drive and a D drive. Use windows xp. anti virus thing is AVG and SPYBOT uh I dunno how much ram and stuff.

The d drive had pretty much all of my stuff on it, including everything on my desk top (quite alot of things I'd collected over six years)

So this morning I booted up my laptop which took almost half an HOUR to go from login to my desktop when it usally takes less than thirty seconds.

Everything save 'my computer' and the trash bin was gone and anything else that was on my d drive.

When I try and access the d drive it asks me to 'format' it but later on warns me doing so will delete anything on the drive so I haven't tried that (also have no what formatting means when it comes to harddrives)

besides being insanly SLOW nothing else seems to be nothing else wrong with it. Anti virus programs didn't pick up anything and it's never done this before.

Can anyone help me? I'd really apprciate it.

Ta, Cass.Sounds like the drive is GOING bad. Best to pull both drives out and hook them up to another computer to save any DATA...if it's not too late already

Alan <><