I am in the same situation , 8 months and there is no result. It started so well and i was so excited and motivated but now...i feel totally burnaout.
My supervisor keeps saying that if i work harder from now on thinks might change, but working so hard the past 8 months without making any progress is not reassuring at all.
I am thinking to quit and try for another PhD topic but i don't know how to explain the reason for leaving to other supervisors and i don't know how they gona take it...

Check this webside
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2008/0,,2027789,00.html

Will any university accept a student for PhD if that student is currently doing a PhD in another university but due to some "difficulties" wants to quit?

Some general questions are:

1.Motivation-Why you want to a PhD?
2.Capacity for original thought and to demonstrate the ability to critically engage their own thinking with yours- Given a task X, what approach you follow to work it out?
3. Future plans
4. Do you know how much efford is required ?
5. Part time or Full time and why
....

It is exactly what i did. In my CV i listed my undegrad supervisor (same uni as my current supervisor) but since he knows what i do know he asked me WHY i want to quit my PhD in this university so he can write it down in his reference for me!

are you willing to reveal at an interview, say, if you were asked what you have been doing the last 8 months and state reasons for leaving? i would talk to your supervisor if possible he may be able to help with your reasons for wanting to leave.

To be honest no. Id rather say i spend the last 8 months traveling..
...reveal that me and my supervisor talk for the same thinks but most of the time at different frequencies? I am trying to tune in but his frequency is changing every time we have a meeting.
It is the case that i drive my PhD car with my supervisor sitting next to me BUT we stuck in roundabout for 6 months not to mention that at some point we even had wrong fuel!
Now after all those months he came up with a new idea that it might work..but after so many failures = im burnout

I just don't want my supervisor to know that i want to quit.However it seems that he "holds" the key for my future. I have tried to ask reference from someone else in the department but he wants to know the reason for wanting to quit my current PhD and applying for another. Everything stucks on this issue WHY? The reason is that i don't like the subject , i don't want to end up with MPhil and the supervisor is not helping...so i want to change but i can't say that...
And i don't think he will give me a reference letter for research to another university...

Hi,
I am in the 8th month of my PhD and i am thinking to quit and apply for a job or for a studentship at other university. However both cases require a CV and reference letters.
Does anyone know how to bypass the supervisor and get a reference letter from a previous tutor (same department) and skip mentioning the PhD in the CV?