Lite-On 83850c with Vista x64 ...

[SquaLLio]

I bought a brand new Pro model yesterday. I just opened it up and it has the 83850c drive model. Which is great considering I don't have to craft a probe, and I should be able to just flash using the onboard sata from my PC. The real problem comes from Vista x64 because I'm not able to install portio32. There is no 64-bit version.

From what I've read, portio32 is very important for serial based probes. Is there a chance that it will work without it? Will it hurt to plug everything up and attempt the dump?
Worst case scenario I dual boot Vista x86. Not that big of a deal, but still quite annoying considering I'll only use it for a couple minutes.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Edit: Sorry for posting in the wrong section. Thank you for fixing it.

[cory1492]

Grab dosflash 1.8 and see it's readme, it just might dash your beliefs about portio. Also, one need not install another OS to 'dual boot' dos from a memory stick, there are even easy batch prep script programs for it like iprep or 360 modification usb drive.

[SquaLLio]

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to read up on it because I'm having a hard time understanding 100% of what you're saying. Lol
Plus, I'm trying to shrink my C: for a second OS and the max shrink size it's giving me is 484mb. The drive has like 80gb free. x.x

[cory1492]

It's really not that difficult to understand... if you even bothered to look for and download dosflash 1.8 to read it's readme you'd likely have absolutely no reason to be messing around with your partition sizing so soon.

Sorry, I'm not big on giving advice to folks who demonstrate they won't follow a simple direction like "Grab dosflash 1.8 and see it's readme."

[SquaLLio]

I did bother and I got everything up and working. Officially flashed with 1.6 and tested to be working perfectly.
Thank you for the reply. You were quite helpful, but hostility was not needed. Just letting you know I needed to do some research so I knew exactly what was going on.

[cory1492]

Well, my apologies for any perceived hostility. The advice I held back is relatively simple though it was something I didn't believe you needed to do (at least not for this): windows scatters sectors across a partition, without defrag or the right (non-M$) resize tool that handles such situations properly shrinking will only let you resize to the last used sector on the partition.