no drive detected in jungle flasher

well i'm at the process of setting my hitachi drive to mode B in jungle flasher and i can't find it. I have the hitachi drive connected to my motherboard sata cable and i did the port IO part. But it still can't detect it. Anyone have any clue ? Thanks in advance

 

can someone please help me. I've been reading guides but nothing works. I know my computer reads the hitachi drive because when i boot up my computer and press f2, it reads the hitachi drive on my sata port. Please help me i'm starting to give up hope

 

I had the same problem with the BenQ drive... you basically, or atleast I did, play around with it, try shutting off the drive and jungleflasher, and do absolutely nothing but turn on the drive and then open jungleflasher, I kinda had one chance to have the drive detected and put it in Vendor Mode and if I changed the drive location I had to do it again. So get the program on the location you think the drive is, turn off jungleflasher and the drive and then turn them both on starting with the drive.

Confusing but thats what worked for me.

 

i had hitachi issues as well, here's what i did
1. power up xbox
2. eject drive
3. unplug power while drive is open (you have to hold it to stay open)
4. open jungleflasher
5. power xbox back up (holding driev again-center light should be flashing)

this should get your drive detected in the upper right of jf. if it doesnt show in the vendor section but it is in the drive section just proceed with flash. mine never showed in vendor section but i went ahead anyway and it worked.

 

nothing works idk what to do. I followed the guide given by jungle flasher and it still hasn't detected the drive. At first i thought it was that my sata drive couldn't read the hitachi drive but my computer recognizes it. Could it be that i didn't do something before. I did the port IO because i can see it in my device manager. Other than that what else do i have to do. If this doesn't work do you recommend doing the slax method ? Thank you again for all your help i really appreciate it.

 

Does atleast jungleflasher see the drive?

I just flashed a hitachi 79, and windows did NOT detect the drive. However, jf did see it over sata. I went ahead and just flashed it and it worked perfect

 

no jungle flasher didn't see the drive for some reason. The only way i can tell that my computer reads the drive is by pressing f2 when i boot up my computer and it shows up in SATA 1. It doesn't even show on my computer. Arghhh i just don't know what to do lol could it not be working because im not using a sata pci adapter? I mean i have 4 sata drives on my motherboard but maybe that has something to do with it?

 

when i did it, only 1 of the 4 sata plugs on my mobo worked so maybe try all 4 plugs?

 

I've tried connecting the cable to all my sata drives except the one where my hard drive is connected to since i fear that my computer might not run after i switch it up. Can anyone confirm me that its safe to move the hard drive sata cable to another port since its the only one i haven't tested for my hitachi drive.

 

Try DosFlash32, my computer didn't recognize my BenQ drive, Jungleflasher didn't either, Dosflash did.

 

can anyone tell me how dosflash 32 works since jungle flasher just isn't working with me. Thanks

 

hitmanxp, why not just flash your drive with FirmwareToolbox since your having problems with JungleFlasher. Also, when you say you installed Port I/0, did you install it manually or how did you install it? That is kind of weird, when I installed Port I/0 my Samsung drive wasn't detected in Windows but JungleFlasher did detect my drive on my VIA card..

 

yea i installed it manually but don't i have to set my hitachi 78fk drive in mode b first then flash it.

 

Yeah thats right I'm having the same problem. Its not reading in jungle flasher everything is plugged up. Mode b is used so that the drive can be reconized you will really see the drive with a drive letter. Then your ready to flash.

I think I'm going to use the Slax CD.

 

sounds to me like jungleflasher wasnt thoroughly tested with hitachi.all i can say is if your drive is seen in the drive pull-down area you should be good to go.

 

I don't think I even bothered to check that got to look next time but if you see it don't you still have to go into mode b?

 

its not detecting my benq either

 

yes go in mode-b. Mine didnt show in the drop down menu but did show in drive properties so i went ahead and flashed and it works fine. try switching between port io and winapi

 

hey everybody i managed to get my hitachi 78 drive into mode B by using slax since jungle flasher didn't work. Now i don't know what to do. Do i still use jungle flasher or what? I'm sorry for asking so much its just that i'm lost. Thanks in advance

 

hey guys here is a little update. I tried using jungle flasher and it said raw dump failed. Then i tried firmware tools and after i clicked save on the raw dump options, my computer froze. Now i just read a guide and it said that i had to turn raid off if i was using an onboard sata drive. I'm using the sata drive on my mother board so can that be the reason why its not working.