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[thematrimix]

Microsoft is winning

Ok out of frustration I went a bought a serial ata card 15 bucks.

Now I have a new issue.

hddhackr sees the new card and even the hd, but when I try and do anything it just sits there. So, I tryed to do something simple like create the partitions something that if is failed I could always load Linux and format into what ever I want.

Well I tryed command hddhackr c 8400 A0 and it just sits there. Any one have any idea. I know I have not bricked the drive as I loaded windows and formated the drive stuck some stuff on there and then deleted it. So, windows can use the drive.

Very annoying. Any help plz.

[1hotjob]

There is another poster here with a problem not getting his drive recognized. I saw in the Readme.txt that drives other than BEVS were supported, but I wonder if that is the problem. Maybe someone will see this post and let us know if they have successfully done a drive other than BEVS.

[KILLorBE]

I've done a WD1600 BEVT without problems, I also know that people have done BEKT HDD's successfully.

A few things that may help:
Unplug all other drives and try different SATA ports.
Try different versions of hddhacker.
Move the SATA card to a different PCI slot.

[boon147]

Also done a WD2500BEVT successfully. Went through flawlessly first time!! So it freezes after you run the flash command? If you have a new SATA card, and the computer see's it OK, try and use the 'Auto' command, that worked fine for me

Only thing on mine is if its been on a while, it gives a very loud click when shutting down which is annoying and makes me thing its because the magnet loses power and the head smashes against the centre spindle,...!!