Another successful recovery !! ST31000340NS Firmware-RS01 After carefully familiarizing myself with the procedures and hardware options I went the USB CA-42 Nokia cable route. (Cheap Thailand version with 5 internal wires) I spent about an hour in total, making up the cable and setting up a secondary PSU etc. It all worked perfectly. After the initial setup and connections I had the drive unbricked in mere minutes. If you want a video tutorial of the correct method using the above hardware then you can't go wrong watching this guy.. His video is directly based on this threads teachings and gives credit as such. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg-yVfD55tY&NR=1 Just have your head full of this thread's tutorials cause he has a heavy Lancashire, UK accent and takes a couple of things for granted. So with all that behind me now I'm extremely grateful to all those who made this recovery possible. A heartfelt thanks for all the research and untold hours of your lives dedicated to a great deed and a job well done. If I sound a bit melodramatic then, well, perhaps, but the drive I unbricked was from my wife's PC carrying all the pictures of our children since birth. Like an a** I trusted a brand new so-called Enterprise class Seagate 1tb drive. Backups ? Yeah, like most of us.. Tomorrow, tomorrow. So now I have it backed up OK !!? So once again, to all those who made this possible. THANK YOU !! To those just setting out to unbrick their drives. Do just like you're told. Best of luck. It works.