Accidental flashing of HDD Firmware

[betyouaint]

Whilst trying to flash a DVD drive I accidentally flashed one of my HDD's instead. Now the BIOS won't recognise the drive at all so I can't boot from it. Fortunately I can still access the data via a second boot partition as XP recognises the drive for some reason. Ideally though I want to restore the drive to full working order. I have discovered that the firmware version is YAR41BWO but am unable to find a copy and I would also need an appropriate flash utility.

Any ideas...?

 

[wolluf]

don't understand - what's to 'flash' with a HD?
how can you 'accidentally' flash HD instead of DVD?
(what were you doing anyway - flashing a DVD? que?)

Can you tell us exactly what you did - your story makes no sense to me as is.

 

[betyouaint]

Luckily it turned out that I hadn't flashed the HDD afterall. The flash utility I used stipulated that the drive to be flashed should be in the Secondary IDE Master position and a quick glance at the cables suggested that this was the DVD. However, it turned out that the HDD was on the Secondary IDE Master channel and after the PC crashed during the flash process and the HDD was not recognised on subsequent reboots. I feared the worst and assumed that the flash utility had somehow corrupted the HDD firmware, hence my previous post...

Once I'd calmed down and began to invesigate the fault I realised that neither drive on IDE2 were being recognised from the BIOS though the HDD was accessible form another boot partition. I removed the HDD and made the DVD Secondary Master before reflashing. The DVD sprang to life and I then replaced the HDD which was now worked fine. The non-operation state of the DVD on the same IDE cahnnel must have prevented the HDD from being accessed by the BIOS...

Thanks anyway...