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i got hold of another hitachi drive today to replace my broken one trouble is when i hook it up to jflaher it wont detect the drive it says no hitachi found i tried another hitachi incase and it is the same

hitachi drives are tricky try to connect drive before botting pc. try different sata ports, also you might wanna try jf 1.70.

i have tried all the jflashers nearly lol , i have recently restored my computer i had no trouble before and it detects all other drives , i will try another port cheers mate

shaky wrote:i have tried all the jflashers nearly lol , i have recently restored my computer i had no trouble before and it detects all other drives , i will try another port cheers mate

done it now buddy i opened and clossed the tray about 5 times then it picked it up , thats strange thanks again mate

For the lack of a better way to describe it, hitachi's can be a royal pain in the back side. Picky as all get out and very uncooperative. In my experience, a new hitachi (I know, no such thing anymore) would be easy as pie to take care of, but as it aged some, they would become very flaky. I think mainly because of hardware issues, but who knows for sure. I just know they can be a pain.

Why are you replacing your original hitachi drive? If your replacing it because its worn out or something, you can just swap the pcb's in the drives, and your good to go.

i only had a spare hitachi , it is doing it again now no matter how many times i try it wont pick it up i have tried another port everything but no luck