Pandora Battery - Unbrick & Downgrade any PSP!

[Qmark]

@Qmark: It could be because it's Window's 98 - I know Vista at least is incompatible.

That will be my working theory now.
Googling "cannot open logical drive" spawns one not-pandora thread, and dozens that are. Win98 seems the commonality.

I blame the nusb20e driver, and Sony's utter lack of a proper Win98 driver.

[Cloudhunter]

That will be my working theory now.
Googling "cannot open logical drive" spawns one not-pandora thread, and dozens that are. Win98 seems the commonality.

I blame the nusb20e driver, and Sony's utter lack of a proper Win98 driver.

Actually, blame Microsoft for not making a USB mass storage driver

Cloudy

[razorak]

Ack...i'm trying to downgrade a friend's psp but i keep getting a

"logical drice has more than one physical drive. Cannot handle it. " error when i try to format the ms with mspformat

it is a Sandisk memory stick pro duo, 1 GB and it has the same error when i connect it via the psp or a MS adapter then a MS reader.

Any ideas?

[yakumo]

Actually, blame Microsoft for not making a USB mass storage driver

Cloudy

Microsoft is not responsible for making any driver.
Every manufacturer must be responsible for providing their own driver for the manufactured piece of hardware. What do you think is the Windows Driver Development Kit?

[yakumo]

By the way is hard luck for me that the programs of the pandora's battery does not work on vista. Anyway there will always be a Virtual Machine for running a copy of Windows XP.

[Cloudhunter]

Microsoft is not responsible for making any driver.
Every manufacturer must be responsible for providing their own driver for the manufactured piece of hardware. What do you think is the Windows Driver Development Kit?

Well, as USB mass storage is a standard, and not a specific driver, it is not really Sony's fault.

Cloudy

[Qmark]

Any ideas?

Sandisk probably uses some fruity variant on RAID0 in its sticks. Try a Sony one.


Probably the best thing to do would be to wait for a refinement of the whole process, where it's all done from within the PSP itself and without any need to deal with DOS and the eighty-bajillion different possible PC configurations.

[burrito]

If you are having problems, then try this GUI by mrdude: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...426#post503426

[Qmark]

I think win98 is doing 'something' peculiar to the MS.
The layout looks strange in FDISK, and when I tried again with an XP system, the same "cannot open logical drive" showed up, and lack of administrator prividges (on a university lab PC) means I can't reformat the stick there.

I have a vague idea of what the problem is, but I have no viable workaround.

Methinks an option I'll have to look into is mailing my stick off to someone who can get the deal to work, as it looks to me like the battery half is fairly straightforward.

[ian1]

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much. I wanna brick ma psp now just to see it come back to life!!!

Thanks