If it was actually "the same as before" it was NOT either BSY or LBA0.Check in the BIOS ( NOT in the booted Windows). Is it seen as having zero capacity? If no see below, if yes it means that the de-bricking was not successful and you shoudl try again. Is it detected? If yes then your procedure worked and the disk is not anymore belongng to this thread, if it is not detected it means that the de-bricking was not successful and you shoudl try again. If the disk is NOT LBA0 and NOT BSY, then: Read (attentively) the post just before yours.Start a NEW thread, you need to recover the partitoning/volume(s). jaclaz ok i checked the bios, heres what it looks like: so from what you say this must be a different issue, i also tried this hdd on ubuntu to see if the drive comes up, but it didnt, and on another windows 7 system, the same as others, just hangs there when you try to enter disk management, if you know about this issue please respond, or if you think i should create a new thread, do you know the name of the problem? any guidance please?