Hi, I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 in a busy state, and I've followed all the instructions and read through gazillions of pages and tutorials both here and on other locations. I got the adapter hooked up to a COM1 port on a XP SP3 Laptop. The communications are all fine and all of the steps are successful until the final step. Last step would be: Alright so I turn off the power to the harddrive, wait around 60 seconds to power it on but there's no response anymore from the harddrive, meaning the terminal is not responding to any of my commands. I've tried: Disconnecting and reconnecting the cables one by one (Serial cable, SATA cable, AC cable, communication cables). Two different terminals (Putty and Hyperterminal) I've remade all of the steps around 10 times, but still the same issue. Everytime I disconnect the power of the harddrive (Removing the SATA cable and putting it back in after 60 seconds) I lose connection. Loopback test is successful and rest of the communication is good. it's just the final step that I can't get to. I've seen people having problems with NOT powering off the HDD before executing the last step so that's not something I would like to do. What do you recommend on doing? What is most likely the issue here? As all communication is working until I reconnect the HDD I wouldn't suspect anything wrong with the communication. Is my controller card faulty? Is the header faulty? Am I doing something wrong in the steps? This is my second day of trying to solve this and I'm running out of patience. If anyone has an idea or a some simple tips it would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks, DeejayF