Hi everyone, this may seem like an idiotic posting, but here it goes: Basically what has happened is this. I have 4 hard drives hooked up to an IT7-MAX2 V2 with the latest BIOS revision, and everything was going great. I am running XP Pro, and every once in awhile I would get this weird "Delayed Write Failed" message. So, after lookin around, I found some tweaks in the registry to allow more cache for system pages. This did not really work. For now one of my hard drives (a Seagate 160 GB) is now showing up in RAW format and I cannot format it. Is all hope lost here? Please advise, anyone. Thanks in advance. Regards, Lukie45.