One guy reported to me that he hosed his drive, but I don't think it was the program that did it.
I think he HOSED HIS SYSTEM by trying to install all that aweful Adaptec ASPI stuff. Junk, 5 different varations...
He said he was at 1.03 before firmware update, did the firmware update (but it just started and never said it was downloading or completed) ... and he had 1.03 after the update... but that none of his programs would work.
I tested the firmware update program extensively... if it doesn't show the "sending bytes..." window... it doesn't find your drive and does nothing. SO I think he just hosted his Windows and a clean install would get his drive working again... so he never really touched the drive.
Other than that... no other reports of problems.
I've had other people who have HOSED their windows (and know they did and aren't blaming the drive) because they just don't know what they are doing. A good program like Nero doesn't need ASPI, too bad that Plextor wrote their firmware download program for ASPI. I suspect Plextor did this so they could have one program to update both their SCSI and IDE drives... but they didn't consider that 90% of the drives sold are IDE and using "SCSI emulation" is tough given how many fouled-up variations Adaptec has released. EZCd Creator is one of the junkiest programs I have ever seen. Works great on a clean install system, but it conflicts with most everything else and the version to version upgrades rarely work right (best to delete windows, install windows, then install the new version of EzCD creator -- I'm not joking).
Stephen --
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