Thank you for taking the time to respond. My computer has been warning of USB device that it does not recognize every time I log in with my password. Today with your advice I unplugged the power lead from the drive and the computer did audible blip. Reconnected it. Unplugged the USB cord at the drive, audible blip, reconnected it audible blip. Disconnected the USB at the back of the computer with audible blip and reconnected at the front with audible blip and the light on the drive is now ON! My Book J now again shows up on the Computer window. Need to move the USB connection back to the back of the computer if possible as the two front USB ports are often used for other things. I am left wondering exactly what happened to make it stop working. Thanks for your help.

fwiw Speaking of backups... recently playing around... Have 8gb ram so I used a freeware, RamDisk, a very small program, to make a RamDrive = 770mb for RediBoost & balance for Browser cache & windows low disk space avoidance. Anyhow while searching web for how people use ram disks trying to figure out what I was doing wrong .. initially my startup & shutdown times went up ... I came across a regedit setting on increasing hard disk cache.. for win 7 / vista anyhow.. maybe same for xp. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management LargeSystemCache default 0, changed to 1 = supposed to be hard drive cache. ......... after changes both graphics ratings went up .1 from 6.2 to 6.3 in Windows Experience Index Daily backup & image went from 17 minutes to 11 consistently . Just confirmed once now, it was the registry change that sped up the backups. Thats quite a time savings here ... I usually stop and twiddle my thumbs when backup runs. Thought some here may be interested in trying that registry tweak.

Hi gma_j The link I'm providing should help you, Joe Here is a link that might be useful: move files to mac

That sounds like one of those FakeHDD family of rogue anti-spyware programs. This family of rogues pretends to be a system optimization program that will solve errors with your computers hard disks, memory, and performance. It will also display fake alerts stating that your computer has numerous computer issues, they also hide files by changing the attribute in the properties folder to hidden, so the files look grayed out. The odd thing here is Removable drives like flash cards and usb drives The FakeHDD rogues usually do not target these types of drives. In My computer, find your external drive E, F, G, whatever it is, right click it and scan it with your Anti Virus. I doubt it will find anything, but I'm still not sure how those files got hidden, so you can try the steps below: You can do this by right-clicking on the file or folder, selecting "Properties" and un-checking the "Hidden" checkbox.