YESSS!!! IT WORKS AGAIN!
Ok, the .exe files are ONLY for windows, and ONLY once it recognizes the drive as a Liteon...
[blatenty taking Z0ner's instructions, but adding to them a little]
1) Boot to DOS with a Win98 boot disk, using Shift+F5 to boot directly to a command prompt (i.e. do NOT load CD drivers) --(Boot disks can be found by doing a search at google.com for "DOS boot disks" --5th link was good)
2) Download the MTKFLASH prog and the Liteon firmware (
XS0U.bin) and put them on a separate floppy
3) Boot into DOS, switch floppies, and backup your current firmware by the following command:
MKTFLASH X R /B /M filename.bin (where X is either 1 = Primary Master, 2 = Primary Slave, 3 = Sec Master, 4 = Sec Slave)--this is the IDE channel the CDRW is on
4) Turn that Verbatim into a Liteon by the next command:
MKTFLASH X W /B XS0U.bin (where X = see above)
Do NOT do this above step with a .exe file...I did it, and got really depressed..