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If the disk is seen in BIOS with it's real size, and it is seen in disk manager as "uninitialized disk" your next step would be to attempt making a "dd-like" or "forensic sound" image. You will need a larger HD formatted in NTFS to host the image, or a same size or bigger to make a clone. And the use of ddrescue (under Linux - recommended) or datarescuedd (or similar porgrams) under Windows. Mind you it is entirely possible that the disk is now recognized in BIOS but that you won't be anyway able to access the physical sectors. Once you will have made this image (or clone) start a new thread and we will see how to recover data (if possible), or if you have difficulties in finding or using the tool, as well start a new thread, the disk drive is now "unbricked" and it does not belong here anymore. The message "No Phy: Staggered Spin bypass" should have no relevance. jaclaz Succeeded ! Thank You very much for your help! I saved the data using the GetDataBack program, with complete success. I summarize the case (0 LBA error), the following steps resolved: 1., Fixing 0 LBA error: Hyperterminal: F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 2., Reset the drive to deafult values Hyperterminal: F3 T>/2 F3 2>Z F3 2>U F3 2>/ F3 T>F,,22 3., Data Rescue GetDataBack (Classic) using. Thanks again! PePeT