I wish I read your message before I put the #3 hd back in to test it.
So it looks like I have a domino fault and screwed up my hd.

Remember we tested my place because of the red light on my surge
protector some time ago and I bought receptacle tester and my entire
mobile in ungrounded. The only grounded outlet is in the bathroom of
all places. As for testing etc it still doesn't explain how the external
Mrimg backup hd worked and the clones don't?

I thought it might be the hd itself so I put #3 clone back in and
it's not responding and doesn't have the icon to safely remove.
How can I put the external Mrimg backup hd in and it reads it
and I already made (1) clone on the 8500 but it stil doesn't read
the drive even with the clone hd in now?

This is strange behavior for the 8500 where it reads one but not
the other and I've change the case, plug, power cord and hd. I
thought for sure it would read #3 because it was just cloned. This
makes two different hd's and two different cases etc that aren't
responding as they should. Sometimes the icon for removal appears
and sometimes it isn't there. Sometimes it says installing drivers
and says its ready to use but there are no popups to open the files
which normally happens. It goes just so far then stops or not at all.

Yet the external Mrimg backup hd didn't have any problems
whatsoever. This is odd, if one can the other should and I also tested
it with the Patriot Key as you suggested and it had no problems.

I don't have any left over hd's except the 780 clones, the original 780 hd
and the unknown hd, should I try that? But if its the domino effect won't
it screw that drive up as well? Are you saying that I've permanently lost
(2) hd's because of this? I can't copy over them?

By SATA your referring to another computer? I have the 780 of course
and there's the 8200 but its all boxed up although I believe it was in
running order but would we really need it for something like this?

How did this all start? I was doing textbook cloning when all of a sudden
all this out of nowhere and I shown you screen shots all along the way
and there's nothing that even hinted at a problem like the ones I've been
having. It started when I was rebooting and the screen went black and
it came up with the invalid OS message and ever since I've had this problem.

Robert