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  • ayjayy
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2002
    • 13
    #1

    DVD Drive Refuses To Become Region-Free



    I have a Packard Bell which I purchased a few months ago. I have checked the drive properties and found that the model of the drive is "HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8160B"
    I'm not sure of the manufacturer as it only says standard DVD-ROM Drives.

    I found that I have only 3 tries before it locks to a region, and dont want that to happen so tried to flash the drive with a firmware, but found that there doesnt apppear to be one for this drive.

    I have also tried software like DVDIdle and RegionFree but these just dont seem to have any effect and just cause POWERDVD to not play the DVD's at all.

    Does anyone know of any other way around this or am I just left with the bill for a completely new drive altogether ? ? ?
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    • joegib
      Gold Member
      Gold Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 136
      #2
      There's a utility called "Hitachihack" that's supposed to oversome region-protection. Haven't got one of these drives so can't confirm this but the utility is linked here:

      http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/


      Incidentally, this is an LG drive. You'll need to use DVD Genie or Region Killer to overcome region-protection in your software player as well.
      Last edited by joegib; 18 Jul 2002, 03:40 AM.

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        • ayjayy
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Jun 2002
          • 13
          #3
          Hi.


          Thanks for your advice, however, having tried Hitachihack I have found that it wont even run for me. It just gives an error message asking me to install the aspi layers which i have already done.......

          (downloaded aspi layers from adaptec.com)

          Do you have any other idea's of what i mite be able to do with this,
          very grateful for your help.





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            • joegib
              Gold Member
              Gold Member
              • Dec 2001
              • 136
              #4
              As I say, I've no direct experience with this drive. Might be worth browsing the threads on this forum (using the "search" tool) to see whether they provide a clue:

              http://forum.firmware-flash.com/

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                • Spence
                  Junior Member
                  Junior Member
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 3
                  #5
                  Try new firmware at this link
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                  Worked for my LG DRD 8160 B

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                    • fengtao
                      Moderator
                      • Mar 2002
                      • 124
                      #6
                      Dear ayjayy,

                      DVD Region-Free 1.0 RC2 is out for several days, this version fixed many problems in former version, you can try it to see if it can works now.

                      You can download it at http://www.dvdidle.com/download/DVDRegionFree10.exe

                      Best Regards,
                      Fengtao
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