Done it, yes its easy, its all to do with the sata ports.
i tried 3 computers all xp pro, all diferent boards, I even tried laptops using the sata port for the main drive.
The last machine i tried which was my main moding machine, its what i use for all my testing and bug solving on hard ware + software issues.
So I tried it using the two onboard sata ports nothing, it would not work. so tryng to solve this without putting in addresses and changing memory configs etc so that the guys n gals on here with limited knowledge should be able to understand with out two much nerd knowledge, and it was easy.
I got a new sata board out of stock, nothing special, a two port card with an additional ide port on it. price retail was about £4 cheapest one i could find.
Put this in the machine in the first available pci port after the video card (pci) and then pluggd the bevs drive into the first socket on the motherboard sata drive.
Immediately it picked up the drive and flashed it.
Even though i had tried it 10 times on the the same onboard ports all usung different ways before.
Used the floppy drive to boot it up Bingo no issues at all.
If any one wants a more detailed plan of what i did Pm me. donations of love and warm fuzzy feelings if it works for you are welcome
and i used the killdisk before i flashed it.
I am using hp6810us laptop with vista 32 bit with an amd x2 Turion. I could not find a way to get it to boot to ms-dos. I can type command.com and get what looks like ms-dos and hddhackr seems to work. it does not detect the drive in enhanced mode and trys legacy, and still no luck. I am using a wd2500bevs brand new. I also have initiated the hard drive thinking that was the problem. Any idea's?
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