Hi Tiny5638

An 80GB external HD seems very small so I am guessing that the drive must be over three or so years old. If I am right then a couple of things spring to mind:

1) It could be that the drive is failing, if you can try and get it checked out.

2) Maybe LW has lost its setting, this has happened to me before and I had to go into LW to reset everything back to the way it was.

And one minor thing you might check, in the course of switching the HD off and on it is possible that the USB connector, on the back of the drive, could have become partially diconnected, just try pushing it back in.

Hope this helps


UK Bob