[mystery]

I have a western Digital 200GB caviar edition (7200 rpm 8mb cache) in a PLUMAX external enclosure that I use on my 17" 1Ghz imac. I recently made a custom icon for it using iconbuilder and applied it to the drive with pixadex. around the same time, I have started to get intermittant "you have inserted a disk containing no volumes that mac os x can read. to continue with the disk inserted click ignore" error messages. I can shut off the drive and it will mount on the next try or the one after that. When I saw this problem for the first time, I immeadiately ran diskwarrior on the catalogues, used diskwarrior to check the S.M.A.R.T. system of the disk and use drive genius to defrag and also check the S.M.A.R.T. system and "health" of the disk Everything seems to be fine, except I get the error message usually the first time I fire up the drive in a day. I am not sure of the relevancy of the icon info, just that it started happening after I applied the icon. I switched to the original icon I had been using and this morning I got the error again. I have the info backed up on another drive, I am just wondering if anyone has had any experiences like this. Is my drive dying or have I missed some huge-staring me in the face-easy issue? I appreciate any feedback on this!

Thanks.

[SWFan]

What version of Mac OS X are you using, and did this coincide with a recent Software Update to the system software?

[mystery]

I am currently running 10.3.7 and I havent updated anything lately. I have been holding off on the update for iphoto and the security update because of rumors of buggy behavior... I should stress that this is intermittant. I was able to get it to mount with no problems earlier this evening, but just now when I turned it on, got the error message again. I dont know what is happening with it. any ideas?