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[MaxP]

crikey what a mess....

the loss of a HD will lead to you "honestly dieing" ?
sounds extream....


ok heres what you can try and do.
disconnect the borked HD and plug another working sata divice into that port.
boot up off the usb key.

when fully booted up swap out the working sata device and reconnect the borked HD, then try and reflash your original bios back to the borked HD.

the reason this might work is becasue currently when you boot up your mobo isnt seeing anything on that sata port (as the HD is borked) if you use another working device (other HD or 360 dvd) then the mobo will see it on boot up and make that port live as such.

best of luck.

[vipersport]

I KNEW I should have mentioned this, the HD is a parallell ATA, running on an IDE cable, not a SATA!
The flasher doesn't recognise anything on the PATA connector now (I tried another DVD writer),
OOOh! the end, the END!!!

[Sharky]

The good news is that you should be able to recover it, download the latest version of mtkflash 183c
from here: http://dhc014.rpc1.org/howto.htm
At the bottom of the page is a Build your mtkflash command were you can select the ide connector position name of firmware you want to flash etc, so that you have the correct command to reflash the drive.

Connect your drive back to your pc via the ide cable but do not plug in the molex power connector
boot to msdos using a floppy disk run mtkflash with the command given from the website connect the power to the drive and press enter straight away.
Hopefully it will flash the drive  for you like it worked for me when I accidently flashed one of my drives
Good Luck  

[vipersport]

Cheers folks! It's back!
Only one problem now though, I unplugged the CD drive (just in case I messed that up as well) before opening up the Boot Menu (to run MTKFLASH from the USB stick), and the harddrive was listed in the boot menu!?
So I didn't reflash, went into windows, and the HDD is up and running.
But when I plug the CD drive in, the HDD is not there again! It recognises the CD drive!
Any ideas?

[hammybunghole]

vipersport. Check the jumper settings as if the hard drive and cdrom are on the same ide cable then the hard drive should be set to master and the cdrom to slave as if your hard drive and cdrom are set to the same settings then only one will be detected

[Sharky]

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vipersport. Check the jumper settings as if the hard drive and cdrom are on the same ide cable then the hard drive should be set to master and the cdrom to slave as if your hard drive and cdrom are set to the same settings then only one will be detected

If the above don't work try replacing the IDE Cable as I am forever breaking them when I disconnect any of my drives and have the same issues as you are experiencing.

[Havok]

I was going to say.. there is NO WAY Mtkflash with interact with a hard drive... MTK Flash also interfaces with MediaTeK chipsets which are not in hard drives (can be in DVD and CD Roms though..)