Dead drive back alive (1004)
| CD and DVD Writers Discuss, Dead drive back alive (1004) at Computer Hardware forum; Just to share my experience: I had a dead drive after a stupid mistake of me: I made a bootable MS-Dos CD (!) because I don't have a diskette drive. I tried to upgrade the firmware with the CD in my DVD-RW But off course this wasn't a good idea |
| Just to share my experience: I had a dead drive after a stupid mistake of me: I made a bootable MS-Dos CD (!) because I don't have a diskette drive. I tried to upgrade the firmware with the CD in my DVD-RW But off course this wasn't a good idea and the drive went dead... Let this be a warning to all of you! To get the drive back alive I placed it inside another computer with a standard CD-ROM drive (CD-ROM set to slave en DVD-RW also set to slave but the IDE cable not plugged into the DVD-RW drive, just the power). I booted the pc with dos DISKETTE and let the CD-ROM drive detect...after that I plugged the IDE cable from CD-ROM intro the DVD-RW while it was running and I ran the upgrade program...it worked!!!Hope you all learn a bit from this when you have a dead drive. Would like to thank Marco also for his superspeed support. You don't see this kind of support alot and I'm very satisfied. Greetings, Raptorke P.S. I think i'm going to buy myself a diskette drive |
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and let the CD-ROM drive detect...after that I plugged the IDE cable from CD-ROM intro the DVD-RW while it was running and I ran the upgrade program...it worked!!!
This'll teach you...