Quote Originally Posted by MadMan007 View Post
Fixed this problem by using Hitachi's Feature tool: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm I burned the .iso, booted it, changed it - it's pretty easy to figure out the utility - and voila!

Now I get 12.2ms seek time with the highest numerical AAM setting. Seeks are definitely more noticable though but I don't mind HD seeks, I suppose I could mess around with it a bit and find a better noise/performance balance but I'm not going to bother right now. It also seems to 'stick' after reboots and power downs. I just hope this doesn't somehow damage the drive :p I know it shouldn't because it's not running out of spec or anything but it almost feels like overclocking the HD versus how it was before

If you're the same person who suggested the Ftool on NCIX forum, let me tell you that it's not working for me.
I tried to burn the ISO to my CD-RW and also tried to burn the ISO to a bootable CD-RW and I still cannot use ftool. If I try to run ftool under command prompt, it says the application is 16bit, so it's not compatible with 32bit or 64bit windows.

The system will boot with the bootable CD-RW that I just created with the ISO but I still can't use the ftool.........
Please let me know how you got it to work, with a step by step guide please.