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On HDD:pin 1 (RX hdd) <--- TX Adapter pin 2 (TX hdd) ---> RX Adapter pin 3 (GND hdd) <---> GND Adapter pin 4 (N.C. hdd) Well finally today in the morning my disk drive war RECOVERED!!!!! thanks a lot to everybody who post, answer and work on this project, because you made it possible! Thanks Pichi all your help, I recovered my disk drive 1tb and make the firmware actualization, hope with that I don't have any problems.... THANKS A LOT AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU!!! Ok Advancing on my work... F3 T> just apear tonight then I hit /2 and give me F3 2> but when I type Z it send me this : LED:0000000CE FAddr:0025CBC3 twice and then no more F3/2> sign.... now, whats wrong? thanks.....

On HDD:pin 1 (RX hdd) <--- TX Adapter pin 2 (TX hdd) ---> RX Adapter pin 3 (GND hdd) <---> GND Adapter pin 4 (N.C. hdd) Ok Advancing on my work... F3 T> just apear tonight then I hit /2 and give me F3 2> but when I type Z it send me this : LED:0000000CE FAddr:0025CBC3 twice and then no more F3/2> sign.... now, whats wrong? thanks.....

LED: 000000CC FAddr: 0024A051 isn't bad.This message is because you have BSY problem. You need connect negative terminal from the battery or adaptor to GND of the hdd (the third pin of jumper's connector, near of TX). You unmount the PCB and you do the BSY reparation procedure. Hi pichi thanks for fas response, I've just do what you tell me, here's my conection, hope I can explain it well Adapter TD to TX seagate Adapter RD to RX seagate, +5v adapter to Positive 3v battery, GDN adapter to Negative side of 3v battery, Negative from 3v battery to third pin of jumper's connectos seagate, SATA power conected directly from my PC. My procedure: 1.- connect TD, RD, GND and +5v to adapter 2.-Connect TX,RX and ground to seagate 3.-Connect SATA power directo from my pc 4.- Run hyperterm 5.- new connection, com5, 38400, 8, none, 1 ,none hit OK 6.- in the left down corner it says : connected 7.- hit CTRL+Z 8.- Nothing happens It's 2:05 am here, I have near 2 weeks with this problem, all my work is on that seagate... thanks for your time and quick response

Hi there, well after getting all hardware to do this job I started to work on it, when my hard disk (seagate barracuda 1tb) is conected normally (with pcb on it) I can see on hyperterminal these: LED: 000000CC FAddr: 0024A051, so far I'm ok, the problem begins when I put the card between the head contacts and the pcb, after remove pcb, place the card between, and place the screws, I connect the TX and RX ports to my hard drive, the 3v battery I'm using and put the power (from my pc) to the SATA hard drive, run hyperterminal, press CTRL+Z and it says connected but anything happens, hit again CTRL+Z and nothing happens, never happens anything with the card placed behind the pcb, I've checked the TX and RX and there are just fine... I'm kind of lost... I'm desperate, I need HELP please!!!