^well its not like the drive is going to die faster not in use sitting there. So i don't see the point (i dont need the data right now or anything its just a few things i dont want to lose, such as pictures, saved games, my music library, etc) i dont know, the drive from my foldign rig i knows works with this current hardward without changing reinstalling the os (not good to do that, but i can do it to get the data if need be) im gonna contact seagate tomorrow to see if i can rma it AGAIN...or better yet, get a refund, but that would be unlikely.