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Well.. first of all, the USB-TTL just died. I now realize I should've ordered a couple since is was $2. there goes another couple months to get a new one. But anyway.. I'm having a hard time getting a working Windows XP PC together for Victoria. and I wasn't able to find a clear info for first-time mhdd user. it's quite complicated. I tried running it and I could see that it recognized my main HDD (with the model number and capacity), but I couldn't see the bricked Maxtor drive and I also couldn't see a connected USB hdd, the USB flash drive I booted, and ran MHDD from, and couldn't see an IDE drive connected to the PC with a IDE-SATA adapter. What should I expect to see in MHDD if the drive was actually at busy state?

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(I could swear that I already responded to jaclaz's post couple days ago and saw my replay posted!!.. weird..) There is not much to miss really. The drive spend most of the time in a drawer except for the few times I took it out to test. the only thing I could add is that the drive had a few bytes of bad sectors, but nothing else. The issue I'm having right now is that I can't establish a terminal connection with the drive. I was trying to get a post from the terminal (without actually tying the fix. not yet.). I'm using a USB-TTL PL2303HX adapter, the drive is connected to the adapter with GND,TX,RX wires, and using an external PSU to power up the drive. My setup has passed the loop test. but when connected to the drive I get no response at all.. like I don't even get the F3 T> prompt when pressing Ctrl+Z. Checked all the connection and they are OK. switched RX and TX wires, no change. As I understood, 7200.11 PCB should be isolated before the fix, while in 7200.12 drives read channels should be shortened. I haven't done any of these thing as I'm only trying to get a terminal report. Could this be why I can't get any terminal response?

Hello all My Maxtor DiamondMax23 STM31000528AS (Maxtor's version of ST31000528AS) had a problem during firmware update, which left it undetectable, although it spins, with a delay when PC boots. BSY state, right? Well, the drive had this issue for a year. During this year I tested the drive several times on different PCs. Always the same except two times I powered up the PC to find that the driver was detected and functional, and I successfully updated the firmware the 2nd time. but both times after a while of operating the PC, Windows crashed, and the drive went back to the bricked state. Anyone has any advice here? Does this mean that BSY is ruled out as the problem and fix? PS1: The drive never had any problems or physical damage before or since the issue. Also SATA controllers, cables, etc. are not causing the issue. PS2: I'm not trying to recover my data. I'm just trying to salvage the drive itself as a project in my free time. HDDs are kinda expensive here. Thanks in advance

Thank you jaclaz I actually read all of the sticky threads like 10 months ago when my hard drive failed. I guess I need to reboot and catch up.

Hello all.. I'm working on my Maxtor drive, and looking into terminal connection. I found these USB To RS232 TTL adapters on ebay. Correct me if im wrong.. as I understood, the CA-42 is basically a USB To TTL adapter. and lately the cables come with an unremovable plastic cover over the circuit board underneath the outer cover, therefore it's not easy to determine which wire is which. so I found these adapters and I was wondering is anyone has used them before. http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-USB-To-RS232-TTL-Converter-Adapter-Module-PL2303-/231094430768?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ce4d2c30 thanks in advance.