Guys, I have an odd solution for probably only some of you, but if you have SD14 firmware (and my drive is the ST31000340AS) and experienced the problem of the drive not being recognized by the BIOS, Seagate is going to do nothing to help you. My problem was identical to the BSY problem everyone else is experiencing, however the fix did not work for me. I could spin down the drive but not spin it up again. It would quietly buzz for about 7 minutes then display a read/write error (see about 3 posts back for a detailed failure). At any rate, after being quoted $2900 by Seagate to recover my data, and having tried every solution I have seen on the board, I finally was able to get my drive to boot up and I am now happily copying files to a different drive! Here is the process (and please do not laugh: desperate times breed desperate measures). 1. Remove your hard drive from the computer. 2. Place it in an antistatic bag. 3. Place the drive and antistatic bag into a large ziplock bag and seal it. 4. Place the drive in the freezer (yes, the refrigerator freezer) for 2-3 hours. 5. Remove the drive and quickly install it in your computer. 6. Turn the computer on to boot like normal (assuming this is your boot drive of course). 7. If you are lucky, yours will boot just like mine did! 8. Wasting no time, copy your files to another drive. 9. Remove the POS Seagate and burn it at an alter (not required step). I know it sounds crazy but it worked for me. Muskieratboi (page 46) and a few others that had the same symptoms I did, you may be experiencing another problem. What does it hurt to try? Freeze that mofo and give it a whirl. After freezing, just install the drive and try to use it. I would not waste time trying to go through the repair process (not that it is a waste of time, I just do not know how long the frozen drive will stay in a working state.) BTW, I cannot take credit for this fix. There was a quick post earlier by someone that did this and it worked for them. I blew past it then thinking it was a fluke, but hey! It worked!