Benq drives -- requiring a usb flash drive question

[gizbug]

Recently purchased a 360 with a benq drive.

I've been reading the "Benq_iprep006_Tutorial."

It mentions a pci/sata card and a usb flash drive.

Is it possible for me to just unplug all my hd's and disk drives in my computer, and plug it into one of my sata jacks on the mb?

I am not sure if this motherboard supports booting up to a usb flash drive or not. I know when I've tried in the past putting my bios on my flash drive, and booting up to flash my bios, it only looked for a floppy drive and a cdrom drive. never found the usb flash drive. If this happens that I can't boot up with a usb flash drive, do I have any other options?

[jusane]

ive never modded a drive before (but prepared myself for a ms28 before i got rrod) but Textbook's guide shows a way with burning a cd.

http://caster420.360mods.net/Textbook.2008.pdf

hope this helps

[saleem]

you can use a floppy as a boot device,if you have usb it will be listed under others in bios.

you can pull all the hdd's and cd/dvdroms from the motherboard if you have to.buy a vt6421 pci sata card if you do not havbe the correct sata type that is needed.

i dont use iprep i just use dosflash16.
:)

[gizbug]

so there is more than 1 guide /way to do this with a benq ???

[showstopper]

so there is more than 1 guide /way to do this with a benq ???

iPrep = Samsung + Benq
mktflash/dosflash = all drives (i think!!)

Search for textbooks 2008 guide on these forums. 2008 not the 07 one.

[ando2k5]

iPrep = Samsung + Benq
mktflash/dosflash = all drives (i think!!)

Search for textbooks 2008 guide on these forums. 2008 not the 07 one.

lol mtkflash and dosflash are used with iprep

iprep is merely batch files making it simpler nothing more

[katsika]

Is it possible for me to just unplug all my hd's and disk drives in my computer, and plug it into one of my sata jacks on the mb?

Yes,if your motherboard has a via or nforce sata controller, if not you have to get one.

From Textbook 2008 (The best tutorial guide,go to 360mods.net to get it):

(When you re ready to flash your Xbox) disconnect all other drives in your PC. You should disconnect all hard drives and DVD drives so they do not get accidentally flashed with the hacked firmware. Disabling these devices in your BIOS may not work, so physically unplugging them is the best solution.




I am not sure if this motherboard supports booting up to a usb flash drive or not. I know when I've tried in the past putting my bios on my flash drive, and booting up to flash my bios, it only looked for a floppy drive and a cdrom drive. never found the usb flash drive. If this happens that I can't boot up with a usb flash drive, do I have any other options?

plug in a usb drive and restart your pc, enter bios and it should show up in boot sequence under floppy. Search the available options to make sure that you didnt miss it, otherwise your motherboard doesnt support usb boot. As mentioned above you have 2 addit options, floppy and partitioning your hard disc.

[showstopper]

lol mtkflash and dosflash are used with iprep

iprep is merely batch files making it simpler nothing more

True, thats why i said all drives ;)
You cant use iprep on a hitachi drive.

[caster420]

You can also boot from the NTFS4DOS cd to mount a NTFS partition on your harddrive and flash from there. It has to be under 32gig (i think). You can also try using dosflash32 in windows. It is much more particular about your southbridge+PCI sata combo but it works fantastic with my VIA onboard (no sata support) and my VIA PCI card. I use the NTFS4DOS to flash all of my samsungs because my motherboard doesnt support booting from a USB device (old PC that stays in pieces).

Caster.

[ando2k5]

You can also boot from the NTFS4DOS cd to mount a NTFS partition on your harddrive and flash from there. It has to be under 32gig (i think). You can also try using dosflash32 in windows. It is much more particular about your southbridge+PCI sata combo but it works fantastic with my VIA onboard (no sata support) and my VIA PCI card. I use the NTFS4DOS to flash all of my samsungs because my motherboard doesnt support booting from a USB device (old PC that stays in pieces).

Caster.

that puts most people out of the window for ntfs4dos as most hard drives these days coming in new pc or building pc's are 80gb plus

i cant see there being a limit these days back in the day maybe ye when things first started off

[caster420]

True but if you can't boot from a USB device, simply create a small 500meg or 1 gig partition (or whatever size) of your 80gb, and go from there.

Caster.

[jusane]

True but if you can't boot from a USB device, simply create a small 500meg or 1 gig partition (or whatever size) of your 80gb, and go from there.

Caster.

i was wondering how come you have to create another (and small) partition?
is it bad/does it not work if you just use the normal C: drive (or a large partition in my case)? along with NTFS4DOS.

so the iPrep files would be on the hard drive...then getting into command prompt with NTFS4DOS.

[caster420]

You can also boot from the NTFS4DOS cd to mount a NTFS partition on your harddrive and flash from there. It has to be under 32gig (i think).

^--- That would be why you create a smaller partition.

Caster.