I have a couple of torx sets, and they all work fine without removing the center 'pin' - just push into it a little and you should be fine

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you can't make it un banned, no one can help you, there is nothing you can do next time read (your like the 99th billion person to be banned)

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ok, be sure he knows what he is doing (I see this ending in the pads being removed and asking for alt points  ) good luck

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yeah there smd resistors, you need them to make the drive function properly - the one on the right (R709) is 100 Ohms and the one on the left (R710) is 10k (Ohms). It can be fixed s don't worry 

Go to your local electronics store, grab 1 of each (they will be bigger, don't worry about this). Solder a wire (28 gauge wire) to each pad and put the resistor in the middle of those wires, and solder that...BUT, since you knocked them off (and your using a probe XD) I would HIGHLY recommend sending it to someone (PM if interested)

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I just take that stupid sheild off  (no debates) - if your still have trouble try doubling up your wires, and if you want to go to the next step, insulate each one with aluminium foil

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gigabite...ite, I don't call you .LSO : p ! Like i said..IMHO, everyone has there personaly prefernce, you could use jungleflasher for all drives 

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that's neat - good job mate

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still ejecting fine....your sure you didn't remove the pad

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250GB HDD's....in 2.5", your right....I can get one for $88AU (at almost direct wholesale price, regardless of how many I buy) - if M$ bought millions (well god knows how many) the price might drop down to $60AU per HDD if not less - as for 2.5" drives costing double, not true (for me anyway)

ah well, wait and see

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yeap 1tb 2.5" from memory hitachi make one iirc toshiba made one

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use a hex editor (hex workshop)...nevertheless upload it to sendspace or something and send me a link in a PM

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jesus, to much reading of n00b forums...it's probably just a scratch in the disk, once in crackdown - 1 time ! if every other game is working then it's a scratch, if not - do cooling mods

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^^ yes

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huh ? I would have said exactly what shuan said, sure wrong section, use g00gle but whatever...

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^^I only experienced this when me and robinsod were trying homemade converters....the code was correct and everything  was 100% perfect as verified by robinsod and geremia yet for some obscenely strange reason it would not work.

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well now you have 2 options

try a passkey

or

send it to someone who can do it/get it done via an external programmer (PM if interested)

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ahh that's because you need a Kreon drive for ripping...

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buy or buy 

Keep trying l-o-erase in DOS, and make sure your port number is right...the only way you can flash the drive now is in DOS (so you will have to use l-o-erase then use dosflash)

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1 quote fine, a couple of quotes after 1 really long post to address multiple points fine...quoting whats on the same page 2/3 posts up while still talking about the same issue (2 or 3 times) - it's useless, waste of screen space

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I think it's your computer IMHO - if you can't do it send it to someone who can or send it to someone to dump it externally (PM if interested)...on a side note, do you have a passkey you could try ? and have you checked all your settings in your BIOS (raid not enabled, SATA ports set to native IDE etc) ?

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