Hello, I have a maxtor HD 500GB, firmware MX15 that died one week before, one night I suspend my vista OS ok, the next day I try to power up the pc and it rebooted (surprise to me) and the HD has not recognized anymore I buyed another disk and replaced boards from one to another thinking that my board died, I read that this is dangerous, I see that I put the boards on the original disks and on the new disk not appears to be damaged (and I think the old not be damaged too) now today I see that too much people have my same problem and posted on this forum and see the solution, my question is if I can follow the instructions to the seagate guide with my 500gb from thailand - maxtor disk (mx15 firmware) without any additional instruction, I have a nokia phone and a ca-42 cable (I will try to use this) when I leave work I will see if I can revive this I have 20 years of data that has passed from disks to disks and this is the first time that see that a disk don't be recognized by the bios I have another WD disk that is 1 year more older witout problems and thinked that the data are more safe on this new one I only hope that my disk revive I have too much data here please respond this to see if I can do the instructions on the guides (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128906 for spanish version) thanks!!!! in spanish: hola, tengo un maxtor 500gb firmware mx15, dejo de reconocerse en la bios hace unos dias, intente intercambiarlo de placas con un disco nuevo que compre sin saber que eso no era posible y puede dañarlo, volvi a dejar todo como estaba y el disco nuevo parece seguir funcionando, por lo que espero que el viejo no lo haya roto. mi pregunta es si puedo hacer lo que dice la guia en http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128906 para mi disco maxtor pues no se si es para los seagate el orden de comandos que le tiran, usare un cable ca42 que tengo de un nokia, si es igual maxtor que seagate la guia por favor confirmenlo que al salir del trabajo estare haciendo las pruebas esperando que mi disco reviva pues tengo mucha informacion (fotos de mi hijo desde su nacimiento, trabajos, etc) muy importantes para mi y me quiero matar si no lo recupero gracias desde ya estoy desesperado por que funcione gracias a todos