Okay I'm really stuck

[darkwrath]

I've been trying for hours & hours now to get my ms25 drive to be detected via textbooks guide with ntdos boot disk & running samread 1234567 12345 (using own serial number).

I have a vt6241L satat pci card but i cannot get the drive to be recognised by his method. What am i doing wrong? I have tried this card in 2 computers now to no avail.

Please someone help because I am going bonkers.

 

[darkwrath]

anyone?

 

[theph0xx]

try the bad flash method.its all written in textbooks tutorial.

 

[Shrink]

also u might try using a usb stick instead of dos disk, thats the way I did my friends and it worked fine.

 

[ivanhoe]

Create a bootdisk directory using Xtreme Bootmaker with custom mtkflash. Check Boke's patch checkbox.

Booting with USB disk is prefferred. If you CANNOT do this, thentry NTFSDOS but you will need a partition sized fairly small (say 8gb) on which your files are put.

Second suggestion is that you disconnect ALL other drives from your motherboard - hard disks and other CD/DVD drives

Do both of these suggestions, and it should work

 

[darkwrath]

Thanks everyone for thier help, finally figured out how to get the usb stick to work, however it just doesn't pick the drive up. I"ve tride boke's patch, & have even tried to do the badflash way as well however nothing works, the only thing i've been able to do is at one point it did detect an ide drive... my dvd burner, now i've got sli sata controller on mobo which i've had enabled/disabled, nothing seems to work at all. Any suggestions?

 

[ivanhoe]

Per my suggestion already - disconnect your dvd burner, as well as ANY other drives (hard disk and optical disk)

 

[darkwrath]

OK I must make myself clear, I have disconnected all drives, which finds absolutely nothing & just hangs, or says no drive detected, & the only time i get the option to select a drive is when my dvd burner is plugged in.

I now have a more pertinant question though, as i believe it could be the sata card. I tried installing windows on a drive through the sata card, the initial copying of setup files went ok, when the pc re-booted it had come up with an error saying there was no drive. I'm starting to lean towards that it could be the sata detecting in windows, but in a dos environment/boot to windows it's completely useless. the sad thing is i bought the 6421L card suggested.

I just don't get what i'm doing wrong.

 

[ivanhoe]

You can also try a different PCI slot... remove all un-needed PCI cards and move the VT card right next to your AGP slot (this worked for someone else)

 

[garry]

just a point,i had trouble with it detecting the sata pci card,when i realised that i wasnt using the master socket on the card!the card had a sneaky little socket just on the oposite end of the card,i ahd thought it was the end you always use when using pci cards!it had one there too,and one on the side,but its the one on the other end i had missed!!