Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far

I've had it. I've got the raving hump.

Been at this little project all day and night. Gone from bad to worse to bad to maybe to sheer frustration. I couldn't get the 'usb bootable' to work. My laptop is too old, no bios usb boot up. In fact couldn't even get into bios. Don't ask.

After pulling my laptop every way till Sunday and restoring 6 images and a fresh install of xpservicepack2. Which couldn't even connect to my network. I stumbled across Plopboot, which looked the answer. Makes a usb bootable with Dos and all you've got to do is follow the program that the others have stuck up and you in. Only trouble was, it wouldn't read the usb. It just froze.
I've given up for now. It's defeated me.

It's not much of an option Samsung have given us here. Also I was wondering, how does one know it's accomplished. Do you actually see anything in the dos window of confirmation? Or is it just a case of check the firmware on the disk after?

Anyone got any other ideas? How bad do we need this patch?

mattseattle

How cheap was the pc you bought and what spec did it need? I take it all new pc's will boot into usb mode on the Bios these days? I can see I'm going to have to cart this stuff over to someones, or I'm going to have to buy a pc or something. I dunno.......I'm going to bed. Got the right hump.

eco001, I couldn't see an easy route to Putting Dos files on a cd. And maybe my laptop woudn't read the usb anyway. I dunno........ going to bed with a cup of tea and biscuits at 6 in the morning.........

update

I put the disk back into the Duo last night after I'd given up. It's still re-syncing now, 9 hours later. I'm not sure how on one of the previous posts 'didn't loose data, up and running again' happened. With the Duo the disk gets re-synced once put back into the Duo. Maybe because I had it in a hdd dock, altered the structure slightly? Enough for it to be out of whack and has to be re-synced from scratch. If one just pulls out a disk and puts it back in without tampering with it, I guess the Duo reads it quick and if not messed it's good to go?
If so how could someone pull the disk, attach it to another sata port/usb and update the disk without it being different within the file structure? As I type this, I'm not sure who put that in a post...............

airs

airs wrote:
FYI, the fix installed on all of my HD204UI and I was able to put them back in the readynas without losing data. One thing of note is that the fix failed twice with an unknown error. When this happened, I shut down the computer and changed to a different SATA port/cable, which worked.

How did you manage it without losing data do you think? Let me know how and what you used for hardware for instance.

soulseeker
I've just gone back and read your post

soulseeker wrote:

5. plugged the 1. drive on a sata-port, changed bios boot settings to usb, booted from stick 6. typed patch.exe, it found the disc automatically and patched it within seconds 7. did it again with the second disc 8. back in the nas - booting and waiting for my networkshare to come up 9. they appeared - now I'm listening to anathema (from my nice 2X2tb-share) and wonder if any files are damaged (I don't think so) but still feel annoyed about the waste of lifetime. at least it worked.

Did the disks need a 12 hour resync? Reading the your post, it sounds like you just whipped the pair of them out. Was that what happened? Or did you have other disks in a 4 bayer for instance. I'm working with a Duo, and I wouldn't be able to whip 2 disks out like that unless I planned on restoring from a backup once both disks back in the Duo and re-synced. Let me know for my mental state, I think I'm missing something......