Lite-on not ejecting or responding

[Strictly360]

hey guys ok i was planning on using Iprep to flash my drive but soon moved over to jungle flasher....i was able to get and save my good key,inquirey, and identify tho (thank god) but when i was erasing my drive i followe the steps and turned off and on my drive at the proper time and then it returned the proper status...but a sec later my computer froze and i hade to restart my computer...now when i turn on my drive my computer will freeze for a while but will respond...and now when i go to jungle flasher my port for my drive isnt listed...i can get isted if i restart my computer with the drive turned off but when i power the drive on in windows my computer stays unreaponsive..and i have tried differnt l-o-erase methods and such but nothing...also when i look for my drive in DosFlash but it says that no drive was detected...but when i move everything over to my vista computer i can get to the step in jungle flasher where i have to input my key and etc..so i thumber drived over my key etc..but when i try to open each it gives me the directory but says cant open file......so guys i can give alot more info if u need it..but with what i have givin u guys hear is there any help on this one guys...i hope my drive isnt dead or anything

[sadalius]

The good news, since you got your 4 files, your drive isn't dead. You just need to finish the drive with DOSFlash since it froze up after the erase. If you didn't get to make your hacked firmware yet, go ahead and do so. Then use iprep to make a bootable USB flash drive. Then copy your hacked firmware and paste it into the DOS folder inside the ixtreme 1.5 package. The copy the entire DOS folder onto your USB flash drive. Then boot to it. Once you get to DOS, type in "CD DOS" and hit enter. This will get you into the directory that you need to be in. There is a video in the tutorial section that CoFree put up on recovering a lite-on after a freeze, start following it when it shows using the l-o-eras command.This will get you to where you can flash the drive with your hacked firmware and you don't have to have anything RS232 connected up to do it, just the sata cable.

[Strictly360]

Hey man you have no idea how good that is to hear ..thanks alot..i will give it a try when i get home so i will give an update then....but if anyone else has another method or anything of the such i will be glad to hear it

[CoFree]

at this point that is the only way i know of to recover a lite-on after a lock up after the erase.

[sadalius]

Make sure to check out CoFree's video on it in the tutorials section. It's currently the only way to do it since it locked up on you after the erase. It's really easy to do.

[dalecheesy]

I copied the litcfw.bin to the root of the usb drive then ran dosflash and followed the command prompts. As saladius said as long as you have the backup files alls not lost. If you're still having problems booting from your usb just follow the post in the earlier thread for booting from an msdos floppy then changing the destination from the A:\ prompt and you're good to go.

[Strictly360]

Hey guys it all sounds good i hope this all works and gets me goin...i did try something along those lines last night and when i typed dosflash in a prompt it said that it could not find any atapi drives or something but that was on my old computer and a floppy...also just to be clear on my files i got a good key mesaage from jungle flasher after a few tries but then u tried another few after just for the heck of it and i didnt get another good key message...so should the good key i have be alright

[CoFree]

it should be fine as long as it siad it was good.
that is all you have to work with if its locked up.
so less hope it good.

[dalecheesy]

As cofree said it should be fine as long as it has said it was ok before.check the key to make sure there are no multipul FF or 00's in it. Fingers crossed as it's too late to create a new one due to it being erased. You're having a nightmare this time but when it's done you'll feel great.

[Strictly360]

Ok man thanks....ya i hope this works to....but if worst comes to worst i have an old hitachi drive...can i spoof that to work...but lets not get into that untill i no for sure that i cant unlock it

[dalecheesy]

Not without a valid key. It'll be fine though

[sadalius]

I don't know where your from, but if you can't get it figured out, I might be able to help you out, if your from the USA that is.

But you should be alright though, you just have to run l-o-erase till you get the 0x72 status, then run dosflash. It shoudl ask to resend the vendor commands on the port that your lite-on is on, hit y and enter, it should give you a weird status message, then power cycle the drive and it should go to the right status, then choose the port that your lite-on is on, choose erase. Let it go through the erase process. Then run dosflash again, it should do the same thing again with the vendor commands. Choose y and hit enter again, power cycle the drive and it should again go to the right status. This time, hit w for write. It will ask you for the name of the firmware you want to write. Type in the filename of your hacked firmware, remember to type it in exactly how it's spelled, capitolization doesn't matter, but it has to be the right file name. Hit enter and it should flash it up. When it's done, so are you.

[Strictly360]

Hey guys thanks for all the help on this one guys i feel good about fixing this problem...ill be gettin home in the next few hours so i will try your guys advice and give yas an update.....and im i canada man but thanks tho

[Strictly360]

O my gentle jesus that was a swet breaking task lol.....but after all that work and clicking i am finially playin backups on my lite-on....first id like say thanks to everyone for there help and support, there no other forum like this one for there support...and i also didnt exactly use the same method as suggested because of errors i was having but its pritty much the same and i also couldnt watch Cofree's video cause i have to resort to ...wait for it...Dial-up ...i live in the sticks guys come on lol...anyways what i did was just make a bootable usb in iprep... then put my hacked firmware in the dos folder under my 1.5 firmware then coppied that dos folder in my usb....then shutdown and booted from usb....then i did the l-o-eras and my port numer till i got the FF72 ststus...then i typed msdos and this is where it just gave me a command to type in my ATAPI drive numer...so looking at msdos i found my drive number and typed it in....then it asked me what i wanted to do and when i typer "R" for erase it said that my flash chip or something was unkown so it went back to my main directory....so i just retyped msdos and got back to where it asked me what i wanted to do....so since i had my CFW on my usb i just told it to write and typed in my firmware name and what do ya no it actually worked....so once agin guys thanks for the help and great support

[dalecheesy]

Fantastic strictly. Good job mate.