Hi all, I have been working on recovering a seagate drive now for some time (on and off) - finally managed to get through the full instructions and the response from drive seemed perfect - below is the full comms from the procedure However after i shutdown and reboot the drive normally (fully connected through usb container) - the drive tries to spin up but then straight away spins down - with no unusual sounds (ie not hardware issue) Where to now - any suggestions? Many Thanks for any help you can give me, Ger. Comms: F3 T>/2F3 2>ZSpin Down CompleteElapsed Time 0.155 msecs F3 2>USpin Up CompleteElapsed Time 7.545 secs F3 2>/F3 T>F712Byte:0710: DebugAddress1 = 00 00 00 00F3 T>F,,22Drive Configuration restored to defaults.F3 T>F712Byte:0710: DebugAddress1 = 00 00 00 00F3 T>/1F3 1>N1F3 1>/F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 0000User Partition Format 5% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00004339, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs User Partition Format 5% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00008DED, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 10 secs User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 10 secs F3 T>