at wits end, please help!

[xboxrox]

Ok, so I got the sata card, the cable, d/l'ed the FW for my drive (BenQ), opened up the 360.

Found out that my desktop cannot boot from USB. So, next option is NTFS4DOS, right? Well, I downloaded it from this site. But, when un-rared, there isn't an iso to burn, they're just a bunch of files.

Where can I get the NTFS4DOS iso which would be ready to burn using imgburn?

[Jman 31]

Do you have a floppy? It will work from that also.

[CoFree]

i dont think any of us have done it that way.

there a lot of people that have.
can you try a floppy as long as you no it working good it should be fine.

[sadalius]

I've used a floppy. It's pretty much just like using a usb stick, but when it reads and flashes, it takes a little more time.

[xboxrox]

I finally figured it out, thanks...it flashed fine!

[sadalius]

ok, please tell others what you did to fix it so those that might have the same issue might be able to read about it.

[NeoRio]

Just an afterthought on the "floppy" method. I have read in numerous places that doing the flash from a floppy is really not recommended. Too many floppy's have problems and give read errors (I've had tons of floppy trouble back in the day when I used them). When I first prepared to flash my 360 I did the bootable CD method and it worked just fine. If needed, I can dig up the link of where to get the NTFS4DOS file and how to format a CD to be bootable. It worked fine for me...and I notice a lot of posts from people who don't have the USB stick (like I don't)...and I think the CD is a perfectly good way to do the dump/flash.

Best Regards

[Jman 31]

Just an afterthought on the "floppy" method. I have read in numerous places that doing the flash from a floppy is really not recommended. Too many floppy's have problems and give read errors (I've had tons of floppy trouble back in the day when I used them). When I first prepared to flash my 360 I did the bootable CD method and it worked just fine. If needed, I can dig up the link of where to get the NTFS4DOS file and how to format a CD to be bootable. It worked fine for me...and I notice a lot of posts from people who don't have the USB stick (like I don't)...and I think the CD is a perfectly good way to do the dump/flash.

Best Regards

Write up a tutorial if you get a chance. I'm sure there are other folks that have this issue. If its a viable option then it would be a good thing to know.

[xboxrox]

It's funny, I dl'ed the NTFS4DOS software from 360mods.net. When I dl'ed using my notebook, it came up fine, as an iso and I just burned it using nero. But when I was trying earlier from my desktop, for some reason the exact same file was being saved as a rar file with the contents of the disk in it (but not an iso, so I couldn't burn it because it wasn't bootable). Strange that the same file was dl'ed differently by two different computers...I've never encountered that before and I did double-check to make sure the the links/webpages were the same, and sure enough, it was the exact same file (it was even named NTFS4DOS.iso, but again, when dl'ed by my desktop, it became a rar file!). Has anyone else had this issue?

[Jman 31]

Did you try extracting it to see what it was. Maybe they zipped it to take up less space or to decrease download time. Just right click on it and choose "extract here" and it will unzip it in the current folder you are in.

[xboxrox]

That's just it, even unrar'ed, it was not the iso image, it was individual files....weird.

[CoFree]

make sure you look back a page at my post

[Bob24601]

Im pretty sure that Winrar can open and extract iso files if when you setup winrar choe to do this in the options.
It could be on your PC you selected this when installing winrar to use winrar for default for iso fles, but on your laptop you did not choose this.

I had a simular problem with iso files, where i wasnt aware that needed to burn this to disc.

Hope this helps

[NeoRio]

Ummm...did we still need a tutorial on how to create a bootable CD for NTFS4DOS? I think I got the info I needed from Textbook's PDF. I still could put one together if needed...

[CoFree]

Ummm...did we still need a tutorial on how to create a bootable CD for NTFS4DOS? I think I got the info I needed from Textbook's PDF. I still could put one together if needed...

no dont do that
any one of us could copy textbook guide.
if you want to do a guide wait till you flash that way
then in your own way and word write a guide.

ive read it and could do it im sure.
i just have not had first hand experience with it
so ill only have a small amount to offer people till i do.