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HITACHI HELP NEEDED!!!!! AGAIN
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29. December 2009 @ 12:16 |
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Hi,
Right i am trying to flash a Hitachi 47DJ drive. All i need is the drive key off it. My windows 7, WIndows Vista and XP does not detect the drive whatsoever. The only Hitachi drive my PC detects is 79 drive. I have tried the bios settings to IDE, didnt work, removing the vmraid.sys file or whatever its called in drivers, didnt work either. I have a VT6421A card installed. I can flash all other drives with no freezing even the lite-ons. But when it comes to the Hitachi 47DJ drive JF says no drive detected. Even when i go to devices and scan for hardware changes nothing, or even sometimes freezes. PLEASE HELP
Here are my specs if you require them.
Windows 7 Home Premium,
AMD Phenom 940 x4
4gig ram
Asus Crosshair II mobo,
1 x 500gig WD hdd
2 x 1TB WD hdd's running in stripe (2TB)
GTX 260 Nvidia Graphics Card - and as a bonus random black screens DRIVER STOPPED RESPONDING LMAO
Please if you need anymore info please ask. I have flashed over 100 Xbox 360s and never been able to do a 47DJ drive, its now time to bite the bullet and get this working.......
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29. December 2009 @ 15:27 |
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29. December 2009 @ 16:32 |
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Are you trying Port io? Does the drive have power? Does it eject? Hitachi's can be a pain. Sometimes, it requires you actually use the windows drivers and use winapi. I usually use portIO and never have issues.
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29. December 2009 @ 17:48 |
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The drive works perfectly, just wanting to upgrade it to a benq as i think the laser might be on its way out.
I have portio installed, but its greyed out with winapi selected, but says 'no drive found' i dont have this problem with any other drive even the hitachi 79, only the 47 dj drive
Its not bricked either
Thanks for getting back to me
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29. December 2009 @ 17:58 |
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are you using the latest jungleflasher? i used to have problems sometime with different hitachis, but he new jF cleared all that up
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30. December 2009 @ 05:40 |
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Hi,
I am using the JungleFlasher v0.1.67 Beta (50) i just cannot understand why 79 drive works but the 47 doesnt mmmm
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30. December 2009 @ 06:20 |
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I always have a similar experience to this when I flash Hitachi's. I find that using SLAX ro get in to mode b normally fixes it
Couple of other things I have found to work are...
Try a Different SATA port on your Via 6421a card
Try a Different PCI slot for your Via card.
Hope this helps.
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30. December 2009 @ 08:11 |
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Thankyou Miketrev, but didnt work lol tried new PCI card, different sata port and different PCI slot. I have just had a Hitachi 46DH drive to do and its done it fine, plugged the 47DJ drive in and still nothing lol i now have 3 drives that are 47DJ and cannot get them to work......
Thankyou for all your replys
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30. December 2009 @ 08:11 |
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IF it's "greyed" out then it's not installed. winapi uses the windows drivers, so if they aren't enabled, then it will not find the drive. Is PORTIO32 under device manager? You do not need the SLAX disc. I've personally flashed more hitachis than I can count and never used it. PORTIO works. Make sure it's installed and you're not using a 64-bit OS. That's your problem, I would say.
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30. December 2009 @ 08:19 |
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Jungleflasher and Device manager confirm its installed. Just plugged in a 79FL drive thats stopped working now, unless its got 47 fw on it. I have tried using slax v2.1 to boot then restarted windows etc but never solved my issues with Hitachi's. The only prob i can think off is that avast, norton, mcafee all see portio32 as a virus of some sort. But i restore it then restart and my PC finds my drives again just not the 47DJ and now 79FL(unless like stated got 47 fw on it) drive. I have read numerous guides, tutorials and followed many instructions but never been successful with the hitachis. I am running 32bit WIndows 7.
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30. December 2009 @ 08:22 |
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Sorry 79 drive working now lol, mcafee had deleted the portio32 again. I uninstalled mcafee to see if this would solve the issue with 47's too but still did the exact same
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30. December 2009 @ 08:33 |
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Yep 79 drive freezes windows 7 now, PortIO is defo installed and is working. Flashed Benq, lite-ons and sammys all in windows and are fine. Maybe MS should release the contract back to Hitachi to release these drives again then that should solve the flashing problems. Looks like i was never meant to flash hitachis LOL
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30. December 2009 @ 08:58 |
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Originally posted by craig1984:
Yep 79 drive freezes windows 7 now, PortIO is defo installed and is working. Flashed Benq, lite-ons and sammys all in windows and are fine. Maybe MS should release the contract back to Hitachi to release these drives again then that should solve the flashing problems. Looks like i was never meant to flash hitachis LOL
They are a right pain, managed to brick my first xbox drive the other day which was a hitachi(writing firmware not reading thankfully)
You could always try Firmware toolbox to read the firmware from your drive (dont try flash with it though, this is how I bricked mine). Also, did you follow the exact instructions to disable the via driver?
1. Disable VIA card in Device Manager.
2. Go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers and rename "viamraid.sys" or "vsmraid.sys".
3. Re-Enable VIA card in Device Manager.
4. Re-Boot PC.
I forgot to reboot PC once, and port IO was greyed out like yours but still showing in device manager as OK.
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30. December 2009 @ 09:08 |
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Thanks miketrev, i have done the following instructions in which you have posted, thankyou again, but when i do that my jungleflasher doesnt pick up my ports only 0x's and not my EC00 or E800 which i use on my PCI card. This may solve my problems which i have been working on but just comes up with no comports detected and shows none in it. I am running windows 7 so i do believe its the vsmraid.sys. Here is my path that i delete-
1. disable the card in manager
2. delete this C:\Windows\System32\drivers\vsmraid.sys
3. re-nable card
4. reboot
Jungleflasher then reports "no comports were found during enumeration" or something along the lines. then on I/O ports it only gives me the following
0x01F0
0x01F0
0x0170
0x0170
I think your right this may solve my issue but never got this method to work for me. Will try this again now, and will report back in a sec LOL Again thankyou all, other forums dont replie to hitachi questions lol
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30. December 2009 @ 09:25 |
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Right done exactly as miketrev has stated, jf still finds the ec00 port and stuff but now doesnt detect any xbox 360 drive. Renamed the file back restarted and finds them again but freezes when 79 and 47 are connected. Damn it thought that would have worked....
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30. December 2009 @ 11:00 |
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Originally posted by craig1984:
Right done exactly as miketrev has stated, jf still finds the ec00 port and stuff but now doesnt detect any xbox 360 drive. Renamed the file back restarted and finds them again but freezes when 79 and 47 are connected. Damn it thought that would have worked....
Could be a bad board if other hitachis are working. I had one do a similar thing on a 79.
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30. December 2009 @ 13:37 |
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i brought a new one and tried it, did exactly the samething. I have always had probs with 79 drives though just not this bad. As soon as power is connected it freezes dont have time to click or run anything. Then wont un freeze until i turn it off. Must be a portio32 problem, i will try other jungleflasher versions and see if this is the same problem as its getting highly frustrating now.
Is there some other way to flash Hitachi's, i know the answer is prob no but worth asking in this case
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30. December 2009 @ 13:39 |
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Originally posted by craig1984:
i brought a new one and tried it, did exactly the samething. I have always had probs with 79 drives though just not this bad. As soon as power is connected it freezes dont have time to click or run anything. Then wont un freeze until i turn it off. Must be a portio32 problem, i will try other jungleflasher versions and see if this is the same problem as its getting highly frustrating now.
Is there some other way to flash Hitachi's, i know the answer is prob no but worth asking in this case
and you are using the Audio cd, correct?
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30. December 2009 @ 13:41 |
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Originally posted by gameover9:
Originally posted by craig1984:
i brought a new one and tried it, did exactly the samething. I have always had probs with 79 drives though just not this bad. As soon as power is connected it freezes dont have time to click or run anything. Then wont un freeze until i turn it off. Must be a portio32 problem, i will try other jungleflasher versions and see if this is the same problem as its getting highly frustrating now.
Is there some other way to flash Hitachi's, i know the answer is prob no but worth asking in this case
and you are using the audio cd? The laser is good? Has to be to do a 79. Freezing usually is a driver issue. Meaning, you don't have them disabled in c:\windows\system32\drivers. Device manager shows a yellowe exclamation, by your RAID/SATA device right?
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31. December 2009 @ 04:38 |
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hi,
thanks gameover read some other of your posts, you seem very knowledgable lol Yeah they shown a yellow exclamantion mark next to VIA and a code of 39. FOund my sata ports in jf but didnt find any xbox 360 drive tried a benq, sammy and the hitachi thats giving me grief. I am using the audio cd correctly well i think so. I eject the drive tray put the disk in, send mode b, takes it, click play 79 cd on the bottom and bingo, well usually anyway. But as soon as i turn the hitachi drive on, my pc instantly freezes until i turn it off.
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31. December 2009 @ 07:08 |
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Could this be my prob? I am using a CK3 kit, and using the mode b built in, does this automatically put the drive in to mode b or does it just help? Does the HItachi's have to be in mode b to be detected? Mine however is not in mode b. I press eject once and it ejects. Does the slax cd help? If so how do i use it?? Also i have deleted the Via driver and now have a yellow exclamation mark as previously stated with a error code of 39. JF still detects my ports and now does detect all my drives apart from the Hitachi 79.
So i have made some progress and i thank you all for this :-)
EDIT.
Now when i turn the hitachi on no freezing yay..... but its not detect via jf or windows now. Also i have installed vista now as i personally think its better than win 7
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31. December 2009 @ 09:45 |
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Been looking round looks like me just having this problem. The drive like i said works perfectly in the console itself, but when connected to my pc it seems to fail. Doesnt get detected in the bios dos or windows. None of my drives are detected in my bios but flash perfectly in windows. Seems like there is no way around this and going to have to admit defeat. Hitachi 79FL drive has beaten me....... Of all drives.
Everything i have followed has been followed step by step. But now it has won the battle. Thankyou everyone who has tried to help!
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4. January 2010 @ 12:32 |
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Just to let people know i got his WORKING YAY!!!
Here is what i did,
Plugged the drive directy to my mobo - Nforce SLI 780a chipset. Set the bios to IDE. Switched on the drive and pc together. Windows loaded up and detetcted the drive then flashed with latest JF.
Make sure bios is set to IDE, if set to raid windows doest locate the drive.
Thanks everyone for the help.
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