WOOOHOOOO!!!!! I'm excited because my second try worked and after a reboot my drive is still accessible. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed just in case. I used a TTL-232R-3V3 cable which makes everything quite simple. I had to install drivers for the cable which I found here http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm (see post#681 for instructions on the colour coding for this cable). Connect Orange, Yellow and Black as indicated in that post and ignore the Rx Tx callouts mentioned because as they are listed Orange should be Rx and Yellow is Tx. The cable showed up as COM3. I followed the instructions found in the very first post made by Gradius2 (thanks for this thread and for helping me get all my data back). I did the BSY fix first, because I had already set up the drive with the pieces of paper under the PCB. All went well and I then did the 0 LBA fix just in case. All my data is there (all 900GB of music, movies, pictures, etc...). Thanks so much to Gradius2, Aviko for their brilliance. Thanks to Alexx86 for the suggestion on the TTL-232R-3V3 cable and to AlexLilic for the instruction he gave for using this cable. You guys are data saviours!! Cheers TV