Tomasone

okay boys here's a question for you Clone WD800AAJS-007AO cost £35 France it worked immediately when I applied Reg's instructions to it. Thought about getting another spare but the only one at a cheap enough price is a 160g drive but same ending code 007A0 would the size of the drive make a difference?

Okay I've stopped messing about trust me I'm still waiting for my hard drive exact freom France once its worked and cloned and tested then i can play until then I 'll be good. I've owned my machine for about a week know and in that week learned more about triple 7's then I ever learned about Rio enhanced so you can trust me to be good.

Some good info there nails, people just don't realize how bad doing updates on these T7's can be.

 

People just assume they can update there executive to anything newer, but that isn't the case and hasn't been for a long time.

 

 

People with a T7 privately need to know what they can update to and in what order don't just jump into updating stuff willie nillie !  Tomasone  yes i mean you lol

I wasn't really read it but then I noticed my name and had to go back and read it again before laughing out loud it shows you guys don't think I'm trustworthy with the tinkering I've been doing with my machine. So okay I'm trying to be good and have promised I wouldn't ticker around that much until I've been able to copy my hard drive. So like I said early bought a 2nd and 3rd cloner just to make sure I didn't get anything wrong bought several newish hard drives just before Reg told me to make sure I used the whole code not just the beginning. When I did I nearly fell off my chair when I went on e-bay to look for an exact match because I tried my original drives again and they gave me the blue screen of death once gain so got fed up and put the original drive in and learnt how to upload demos and play around with them today but soon went back to my original games apart from 2 of the demos. I've know order an exact match from France it cost me £35 so will wait for that then copy the hard drive. Okay Nails what does this upgrade thing mean do I have to upgrade my machine with a new executive ?  Still laughing now fruit man 69 but I promise to be good Sir 

 

Hi Tomasone,

 

That is ONLY PART OF THE MODEL NUMBER you have given me.

 

Mine is a WD800AAJS-22L7A0, this is why I have been saying it must be the EXACT part.  Look at this thread for details ( http://www.desertisl...ent&comment=727).

 

Look on eBay, you will see lots of WD800AJS-xxxxxx drives, all with different secondary part numbers.

 

https://www.ebay.co....00AAJS&_sacat=0

 

I truely believe you problem is you don't have the exact match - needs the same heads / cyclinders / LBA for it to work in my expereince.  I think some of the older execs on the machines it is less picky.  I did manage to upgared the SATA driver on a bluescreen of death clone, but then got verification errors.

 

Can you confirm excatly what you have in your machine and what the other disks are you brought.  If you brought something different then stop wasting money and find something the same if you want this to work.

 

I have a pile of old disks that didn't fit - it took me a while to learn this lesson.

Thanks Reg for the advice I'll try that now and see if I can get a match or two also it states the target drive needs to be bigger than the source have you found that to be true?

they are different games with different game states (except one has £1 max and one has £2 max)

 

somebody once made a thread and said you need to clone your drive. to me this is nonsense, why clone it anyway UNLESS you want to feck around with it.

I was told as soon as people found I had a t7 that the first thing was to get my hard drive copied. So if anything happens then I've not lost £4000 worth of brilliance and am left with a piece of junk in its place. So tried my first 2 attempts yesterday with a stand alone cloner named the Orico stand alone cloner but it worked to copy both hard drives successfully but when I put them in the machine both gave me the blue screen of death. Tried to format both drives but the stand alone cloner had given up the ghost and wouldn't even read the drives anymore. I tested one of the drives said it had been repaired but it still gave me the blue screen of death so got fed up and thought I'd wait and try it again today. With a new cloner I bought two different models just to make sure I had one which worked. To answer Reg's question it says WD800AAJS which is an exact match from the one in the machine I also bought two others with the same code but are WD but not caviar blue models. Watch this space for updates I get both new cloners today so we'll have to wait and see what happens.