Why shouldn't works? I'm into IT since 1983, I didn't started yesterday. I was 99% sure it would works. If is about the credits, then... I did put the credits at the end of the guide. Btw, I lost hours to compile all the informations in a CLEAR and UNDERSTANDABLE english (did you see the original .pl infos?). The guide was written from scratch, just used and refined (a lot) all that information. A good example is that picture (indicating TX & RX pins), is 100% my job. You cannot compare that to a horrible ascii art. Gradius Looking at the solution again, I don't think you'd need to power cycle after the SMART erase, but it's not problem considering the drive is going to be hanging outside of the machine anyway. Either way, glad to have a working machine again, and it looks like the only thing to have taken any 'damage' is my firefox session, but there are any number of reasons for that to fail