[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

Hi, I've never used Vista, but the PL2303_Prolific_DriverInstaller_10311 you mentioned should work with both O/S. Under Computer Management => Device Manager in XP you should be able to see your device under ports (or modems as some ppl have reported here too). If there is a device with a yellow triangle and !exlamination in it you should be able to install the drivers from there.

Did your cable come with a driver CD?

If the drivers you have tried aren't compatible with your cable have a look at the chip inside the USB cable to see if you can get the right drivers for it. I can't tell you which post, but I remember there a quite a few links ppl have posted in this topic for different drivers.

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

So after you got it to work. and show up in BIOS it was detected as 0GB.. did you do the other fix??? or after you got it to show up as 0GB you just updated the firmware and it now works??...

Using aviko's method

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=832876 POST #528

After the HD showed up in the Bios and was shown as 0GB, I set up and repeated the steps for the Busy fix. The Busy fixed then worked and then updated the firmware.

As the$#!Za has said above though, just applying the LBA 0GB fix would have probably been enough. Basically the difference between the 2 fixes are the busy fix spins down, then up, the HD first.

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

Another HD fixed! A big Thank You to everybody who has contributed to this thread.

I used this CA-42 cable of ebay,

It has this chip inside. ( PL-2303 )

Black = Ground, White = Rx, Blue = Tx,

I found using a separate PSU really helps when fixing the HD and I used, as suggested also, cables from an old CD audio cable for connecting the HD to the USB cable.

I did have a small problem when I got to this part (doing busy fix),

F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22

I waited 45 minutes and nothing happend . Reading what other people have said previously in this topic though, it was not something to worry about.

I did this to get it to work;

Press ctrl+z - to get back to prompt

Disconnected Hyper terminal - Call => Disconnect in Win XP Hyper terminal

Unplugged the HD - (Powered off, not unplug Ground, TX, RX cables), Switched off the PSU.

*

Plugged the Sata Power cable back in and Switched back on the PSU.

Connected again to Hyper terminal and ran the process again.

This time it worked.

*I did want to find out what happend to the drive at this stage, so attached a sata data cable and booted it up on another PC. In the Bios it was recognized but as a 0GB drive. It looks to me that both problems are one of the same but are at different stages.

HD now updated to the latest firmware and fully fixed