Re: HP 8100 firmware update problems

When you say "safe MS DOS prompt" with XP, are you still booting up from the hard drive, or from the floppy? If from the hard drive, XP may still be hanging on to the CD Rom drive, preventing you from flashing the drive.

I'd try this: with an empty floppy, choose to format the A: drive, and check Create an MS-DOS startup disk. Copy the new HP firmware and flash program over to the floppy disk. Restart your computer with the floppy in the A: drive, and boot up from the floppy disk. (It should say Starting Windows Millennium - don't panic, it will end up at an A:\> prompt.) Then try doing the flash sequence again.

I run XP, but I've never tried to flash any device (motherboard, DVD-ROM, etc.) from XP's "safe mode". Always from a DOS (6.x, Win9x) boot disk, with no or an empty config.sys file.

If that doesn't work, then I might suggest upgrading to a newer CD writer. I had no problems with my HP 8100, but I've since moved on to a faster drive.

Hope this helps, and good luck.

Bob.

"Brian" <MagikLair_at_gmx.net> wrote in message news:24fc8b54.0311291231.57f7c248_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
> I have a HP 8100 writer and I am trying to flash the drive for 80
> minute burning. But I get drive busy when attempting to flash the
> drive from A:/ and I'm in safe mode (Drive is empty). The OS I'm
> running is Windows XP, any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Brian
>
Received on Tue Dec 02 2003 - 14:17:44 PST