Hehe, thanks, but it's a challenge to get it working and pull the stuff off it. Whether it's a bad drive to start with is not important at this point. Drive has been opened and didn't see anything wrong, I'm suspecting an electrical issue. Question is any insights on testing this thing. I got an Emprex 1GB and opened it and the stuff in it are different, so I can not swap anything over...haha, I bet they have a terrible engineering issue. Possible solution is to send it to an advance data recovery company where they can pull the flash chip out and do a raw read and then regenerate the data structure. What I want to see if I can just replace a chip or two to get it working for 30 minutes or so. All I need is for it to work for 30 minutes to pull everything off. The only problem is I can't seem to find any same parts to swap things around, any other solutions or leads will be appreciated.