Some people have been wondering if their drive is actually suffering from the "BUSY" state problem that causes the drive not to be detected in the BIOS. There should be ZERO risk to your drive doing this as long as you follow the instructions! !!!!!Victoria is a powerful program, so do not mess around with any options other than specified, unless you really know what you are doing!!!!! Here is a quick and dirty guide to check if this is in fact, what has happened to your drive; What you need: 1)- a functioning computer running Windows XP/2K/2003 (not sure if it works on Vista) 2)- your "suspect" hard drive installed and hooked up to a SATA port in your PC 3)- WinRar, or another program that can extract RAR files 4)- Download this software - Victoria for Windows 5)- Extract the rar file to a location you can remember "C:\Temp or C:\Victoria" 6)- Go to the folder and execute the the "Victoria43.exe" file 7)- Now you will see the opening screen: 8)- Next you need to switch the program to PIO mode in the top right 9)- Now click the PCI Scan button 10)- You will see a list of drives listed; hopefully your bricked drive will be obvious, but go down the list and when you select the suspect drive, you will see this at the bottom: I hope this helps some of you actually diagnose the problem instead of "guessing". Fatlip Addendum: I have seen drives that show as BUSY that have other issues beyond just being stuck in this state! It is a start, but not a "Be all end all" determination if you have a bricked drive.