Vista sees drive wrong nec3550a

[Chewy]

you guys are getting in deep water here

flashing from dos, command prompt safe mode etc

I just flash mobo bios from a floppy boot(dos32?)

w/o sata drivers seeing a hard drive is impossible

if the win32 gui flasher doesn't see the drive then you might try a dos floppy boot and run the dos flasher from the command prompt, you might/probably have to have the dos flasher and bin file on an extra floppy you exchange after booting to the startup floppy

I had an old drive try to go south with me in a crossflash and after the win32gui binflash the drive didn't work and the drive light was blinking

I powered down and reflashed after rebooting

any windows flash should be done in safe mode

[jblitz277]

Ok I need the gui version of binflash?I'm not doing it this way by choice I thought I was following the instructions on L&Ds site.I read extensively and I guess I misinterpreted it.I'm at work for the next 10 hours but,I'll give it another go tonight .Is there another (manual) instruction you reccomend?I've tried the binflash on 3 drives now and haven't got it right yet.

[Chewy]

even to run the win32 gui version people report having to drop nero aspi or a good substitute into the folder where you put binflash and the bin file

it's one of those "long ago and far away" problems, many moons ago

[jblitz277]

So are you saying it's hopeless?I'm not trying to be difficult but,does that mean it's more work than worth?

[jblitz277]

New problem,Iprobably should have posted in General Computing but,since it happened in the process of this drive install I put here ,after uninstalling Nec 4570A and taking it out on re-boot it says"Disc boot error insert systems disc and press enter"So I go into boot menu and tell it to boot my Hdd with Vista and it works but,everytime I re-boot the cpu it reverts to the error message.

[Chewy]

sure everything is right in bios?

[jblitz277]

I thought so I'm leaving work soon I went into boot priority in bios and told it to boot from hdd f10 save and exit I'll try again but,why would installing a dvd-ram cause this?I didn't do any system changes

[jblitz277]

Ok bios fixed for some reason and I did not change it it was booting the seagate drive(ide) after I removed the nec now all is well with that

[Chewy]

it will all become second nature soon,

Know Thy Bios

or buy a dell

[jblitz277]

I'm swell now so with the 4570A,is it doable?Or is it too much for my noobness?

[Chewy]

nothing ventured, nothing gained

my old master used to say

there is no trying, just doing