Windows Detecting Hitachi 78 Drive (PLEASE HELP!)

[dutchboy]

Hey everyone,

I've read everything you can read about doing this stuff and I finally started to mod my Hitachi 78 drive today. I booted up into Slax 2, got the drive in mode B (confirmed), but when I boot into windows and pop in a DVD, nothing happens. I checked device manager, and it's not there, and when I load up the Maximus software, it doesn't find anything.

I havent seen anything about this in other posts or tutorials so I'm a big scared of what to do next.

Is it ok to power off and on either the PC or xbox now?

I dont want to brick this thing.

I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Mobo, with 4 SATA slots and 4 RAID SATA slots.

I'm using the drive on SATA 2 next to my HD on SATA 1.

Should I use the RAID SATA 1 slot?

Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

-Matt

 

[dutchboy]

Update...

I restarted the PC and left the 360 on. I booted into the bios and this is what is shows:

First SATA Master Maxtor HD
Second SATA Master HL-DT-STDVD-ROM

But when I load windows I only get my IDE NEC Burner, and an alcohol 120% image drive.

Maximus doesn't pick up anything!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

-Matt

 

[johnjohn]

at the windows loading bar after the bios screen edject the drive a few times and that might help windows recognize it.

 

[WaferJ]

I don't know if it makes any difference but I too have the sam mobo but I used version 2.1 of the Slax boot CD. I have flashed 2 or 3 MS28 drives using this disk and have had no problems.

Make sure you are using the plain SATA slots and not the SIL raid slots 'cos they won't work.

 

[dutchboy]

Thanks for the replies.

I had Dameon Tools running and forgot to disable it. I restarted and did the opening and closing drive trick and it worked.

Dumped and flashed flawlessly.

Thanks again.