Thank You Guys, MY GOD .....My Piece of S**t drive (ST31000340AS) is risen from the grave. Used a CA-42 cable, XP Pro, and the magic command of F,,22. Just let you know my drive wasnt bricked but had S.M.A.R.T failure and vista would could not access drive (RAW format). Xp wouldnt boot. I followed the 1st post and vista would chkdsk the drive and pause at 75% .With the F,,22 command Vista ran chkdsk and spotted errors in some files and corrected them. My sequence F3 T>i4,1,22 F3 1>N1 F3 T>F,,22 F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 (Firmware SD1A) Aviko & Gradius2 XXX