Mtkflash the DOS utility
for flashing bin / hex firmware to Mediatek chipset based drives
 

If you have no previous experience you are advised to study the subject well first!
Check the relevant forums for MTKFLASH threads. Here are two good threads:
OC-Freak's mtk tutorial cdfreaks forum, Using Mtkflash  at the Firmware forum

Bad flash or flashing with a wrong firmware can ruin your drive!
Applying Mtkflash to a wrong drive might kill it!

A very basic how-to:

- create a DOS boot diskette

- download Mtkflash and the binary file you want to flash, unzip them and copy to the diskette.

- boot your machine from the diskette *, at the A:\> type:

MTKFLASH # W /B /M filename.BIN

only instead of the # should be:

1 - if the drive is master on primary IDE
2 - for slave on primary
3 - master on secondary
4 - slave on secondary

and instead  filename type the EXACT name of the binary file. (Zero is not the same as letter O)

Be VERY precise with spaces!

- Hit the Enter and wait till process is finished. Remove diskette and reboot

Not sure how your drive is connected?

ATTENTION: The above example is for flashing a BIN file. If the file is HEX don't use "/B" :
MTKFLASH # W /M filename.HEX

* If the system refuses to boot because drive is unrecognizable, try pressing F4 to continue. 
If that's no good go to the Bios, disable the drive/set the IDE channel where the drive is to "None".

Or: Shut down, open the case, disconnect the power lead from the drive and then boot.
Reconnect just before flashing.

Backing up the firmware with Mtkflash:

Use this command line to make a single file binary backup of the firmware:

MTKFLASH # R /B /M anyname.BIN

Where # is the port number as above. Choose any file name uo to 8 characters. This file will be
written to the same location Mtkflash is, make sure the floppy has enough free space.

Downloads:  

Links to the files change frequently. Therefore, direct links will soon go bad
Tip: do NOT publish or post direct links to the files, link to the page instead

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