New Lite-on drive being recognized as old lite-on drive

[tlrbjc]

Hey...i just purchased a Lite-on IHAS422. My old drive was an SOHW-812 that i crossflashed with a SOHW-832 firmware...When i installed the 422, windows picked it up as the 832...I tried disabling the IDE in the BIOS and restarting and it picked it up...also did a scan for hardware changes, uninstall drivers, etc...I d/l the new firmware for the 422 and when i tried to flash it, it told me that it was the wrong firmware for the drive. The drive is working and reading discs which puzzles me cuz it has the wrong firmware on. Is there a way for me to remove the old firmware? I was always under the impression that the firmware was installed on the drive and not the computer...maybe im wrong. i actually just did a reinstall of xp on a new harddrive and the new install of windows is still picking it up as the 832...How can i get rid of the firmware from b4? Even cleared the CMOS thinking it might have been on there.

thanks all

tlrbjc

[nic2k4]

Try booting in safe mode, then go to device manager and delete the drive.

[RabidDog]

You are correct .. the firmware for the drive is flashed onto the drive eprom itself. Eg if you upgrade the drive firmware and take it to another computer, the drive will still have the updated firmware. If necessary disconnect the drive before deleting all traces of it in windows and Linux. And be careful, as two drives form the same mfr are going to look very very similar.