shinto wrote:but i couldn't find cracked firmware for my drive and it could ruin my drive too!
Something that doesn't exist could ruin your drive o_O?
Nah Nah, yeah. Well firmware is the stuff that tells the little computer on the DVD-drive how to operate and send data out to your "big computer". So if this gets fucked, then your DVD-Drive is toast.
I believe that you have to tell the DVD-Drive "I want to update your firmware", by sending a certain set of commands. That means you can only flash already good DVD-drives, if it fails, then the software will not get a OK response from the DVD-drive and will have no way to write a working firmware. Thus your DVD-drive would be toast.
You can screw up your DVD-Drive, updating with good WORKING firmware provided by the manufactuer, or cracked. Both have a slight chance of screwing up your DVD drive. If someone botched the job on the cracked firmware, then you'd be screwed, usually they're tested tho. You also can't really trust those taiwaneese to always be on top of their game when writing new firmware either.
Okay, well there are software solutions out there. I just didn't investigate them since I like to take care of them at the hardware level.
You'll probably have to search for them or something
What model is your drive and what verison of windows are you using ?
~klinky