hi everybody, a few days ago my Maxtor 1TB HDD didn't appear in my bootorder and nothing helped to rescue my files. then I found this theard here and a new hope rised in me. So I followed your tutorial but my hyperterminal didn't show me the Command Promt. Instead it brings me a lot of rubbish and confusing symbols (see screenshot below). Do anybody know where the problem is? Did I get an other failure or am I right that my HDD has same failure as here described?