Look in Microstudio 3.000's Tools menu Default Drives dialog to see the drive model and firmware version. Post this here so we know what it is. We are not having others report this, including our beta testers who tested 16 beta versions before we released 3.000. Thus, I suspect there is something about your drive.
If not, we want to know that too. This is an unacceptble problem. I hope we can fix it. We are working on 3.001 release for testing this week.
NOW is the time for us to look at your problem. 