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Jaclaz, just wanted to thank you again, I got this drive fully working after following your advice, Having had the drive sit on a shelf for 4yrs, and various attempts to repair it, I was taking one last shot before I destroyed it. Glad I did now! Nice 1tb of storage back, with some old gems of data I thought were gone forever. Just one final question, how safe is it to use now? I dont think i'll be keeping anything too important on it in the future anyway.

Thanks jaclaz, great to see youre still active on this thread and take the time to reply to noobs like myself. Anyway, Tried the motor contacts , Got a Spin down fine, Spin up was tricky, it has to be timed perfectly, tho once I get it up, it wont allow me to type any further commands to continue the process. Any ideas? Thanks again EDIT: NEVER MIND! Got it! Drive at least shows in windows under disk management, getting 0mb error, so will have to try repair that next.

Hi guys, excellent thread and an excellent help to get me this far but I have run into a problem... Trying to fix the BSY state, I have everything hooked up and working, I get the following -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rst 0x20M" I hit Ctrl+Z and get "ASCII Diag mode" "F3 T>" I type /2 F3 2> I type Z F3 2>Z LED:000000CE FAddr:0025DF1F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is where my problem is, I cannot get any further. If I type "Z" right away, I get the above message. If I leave it longer than 20secs without typing, the drive will either power down or constantly loop like; Rst 0x20M Rst 0x20M Rst 0x20M Rst 0x20M Any ideas?