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Are you sure your SATA cable / port is working? Did you try it on a different PC? Yes, they work. I have other SATA disks and if I attach some of them to the Sata port they run without any problem. I've been reading about Victoria for Windows. I will try this program in the affected disk to see if it is really in busy state or it has any other problem. (I'm not familiar with the use of Victoria but I hope it can give me some clue).

Hi, I have fixed several 7200.11 ST3500320AS SD15 500GB drives since the busy problem happeded and the solution was posted in this forum. All drives worked fine after fixing and I recovered all data correctly (I'm talking about 6-8 drives I'm not sure). But recently I have experienced a strange behaviour with two drives: I follow EXACTLY the same steps as usual and apparently the problem is solved but when I connect the drive to the computer the drive isn't still recognized. During fixing steps I got correct feedback from drive on hyperterminal according to the tutorials, (I got no errors or strange messages), but no matter how many times I repeat the process the drive remains busy. Or at least not recognized in BIOS. I assume that serial adapter is working fine because I got response from drive on hyperterminal, in fact I recovered one drive after the first one that failed in fixing it. Does anyone have the same problem? Thank you all and excuse my spelling mistakes so I'm not english-speaking.