Comments on: Removing Hybrid feature of an Acomdata drive.

By: Joolz

Joolz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:34:53 +0000

UPDATE
Finally had the stupid CD volume removed. Unfortunately I couldn’t use the Mac to do this, having to resort to a pc machine running xp. Please keep in mind that your data WILL BE LOST during this process, so save it first.
The instructions for this are crude so here’s a brief:
download and start with xSil251 Switch HDD to CD+HDD_Nomad Mobile Desktop_V1.04_091007
Plug in your drive and start the app Shd2cdhd.exe. It will ask for a password, I just used 1234 (this isn’t something that matters so use whatever on this one time deal only). Then proceed.

After that’s done start the app xSil251 Switch CD+HDD to HDD 3.5_Toshiba_V1.02_041307
and it just follow through with a couple of OK clicks. This last step removes the CD partition for good but it will format the drive as Fat 32, so you’ll likely want to format it once again in the Mac if you prefer to use a more Mac friendly format. In my case I plugged it back in the Mac, opened Disk Utility and formatted it. after all this done, I now have what appears to be normal single volume mounted on my desktop.
Why do this? There’s a practical reason for doing this. That CD Volume adds no benefit whatsoever to you. It just gets in the way and clutters your desktop. Also whenever you want to disconnect and remove the drive you now have to to eject both volumes (the actual Acomdata hard drive and the CD volume).

Acomdata is retarded for adding this “feature” that is useless, outdated and serves no purpose whatsoever. So removing it is safe and it will save you headaches down the road. Just do this before you add a lot of data to the drive as it will be completely erased during the process of removing the cd volume, as described above.

thanks a bunch to Ivan for taking the time to create this informative page for us. Much appreciated.

By: Joolz

Joolz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:24:17 +0000

Fraid it didn’t work for me. It says device not found. Tried both the links above (Mac links) and got the same result on both. Also, these would not run in my Intel Mac, so I had to move the Acomdata drive to the G5.
That’s too bad, I share the same frustration with this useless additional CD volume that’s causing grief to so many. If I’m missing something here and someone can help, i’m all ears. Just want this stupid thing gone.
Thanks

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:15:19 +0000

I pressed the same button while exploring… Didn’t back up data before and lost everything…
Anyone any idea of getting data back?

By: V

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:47:00 +0000

THANK YOU! Those IDIOTS at tech support with ACOMDATA couldn’t solve this last year and I’ve been trying to find the solution for a couple years now. I blamed Windows7 for mishandling the USB connection but alas it was this firmware CD partition. All seems to work fine now. I’m on win7, ran the MP251 and just configured HDD…. didn’t touch anything else and it worked.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:03:33 +0000

Awsome this was bothering me

By: Great!

Great! — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:01:43 +0000

I’ve been looking for a solution to this issue for a long time! This should help me out a lot. Thanks so much!

By: thank you!

thank you! — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:08:52 +0000

You saved me headaches! thanks a bunch!