Hitachi 0078 Help.

hi all,

I have read through the faqs and textbook.pdf before i decided to post here. My drive is Hitachi 0078 (October 2006).

I have tried the following methods but I am still unable to get past the reading phase.

1) Booted up xbox360 drive with PC with Slax version 2.1 disc. Drive was recognised as I saw the "Thanks to Kev" while it was booting. However, there were some errors during the booting phase and at one point in time, it was trying to spin up the disc and I ejected the disc to speed up the process.

2) Shutdown the pc and rebooted it again. Windows XP recognised the Hitachi drive instantly and I proceeded on to flash the drive with firmware tool ver 3.1b. Just to note that I ejected the drive several times during the windows loading bar as this was one of the steps indicated in textbook.pdf.

3) started the firmware tool software and I clicked on the dump firmware function and the system starts to hang on me the minute i clicked "save"

Now, I have tried with the following sata chipset and the results are the same:-
1) Abit NF7-S (Silicon Image 3112)
2) Asus M2N-E (Nforce 570)
3) Via 6421A (Sata Raid Card)

If I try the option 3 in the Asus motherboard, the strange thing is that once my drive is in mode b, my system would hang at POST. For the Abit motherboard, no such instances occured but regardless of that, the I am still unable to read the firmware.

I have also tried running the software in safe mode but it's still the same results. I have also disabled the RAID functions in the cards except for Via 6421A raid card which I do not have the option to do so.

If anyone have a solution for me, please let me know.

And by the way, can I use classic dump for my hitachi 0078 drive?

Thanks.

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