anyone no how to flash a disc drive?

[rampantreaper]

as above, need to buy a drive for the kids 360 but i understand it needs flashing, as this apparently doesnt involve woods and a raincoat im lost. cheers

 

[Laine_16v]

Used to do this a lot (been a year or so).

Need to figure out what manufacturer of drive it has. Samsung, Hitachi are fine, LiteOn require a special probe tool.

You need a SATA cable to connect it to a computer, and a was of powering the drive (i made a custom cable). Then the neccesary software to read the firmware, extract the unique key, inject it into a modified firmware and then write it to the drive.

It takes about 5 minutes if you know what your doing, i see your in wadebridge (not far from me), might be able to do it for you?

 

[Blacky950]

It will more than likely ban the xbox from live unfortunately, I did it to mine because the drive didnt open properly, then got it flashed and now microsoft thought the xbox had been modded and then they blocked it.

 

[rampantreaper]

you could have done it saturday when you were robbing my clio!

 

[rampantreaper]

It will more than likely ban the xbox from live unfortunately, I did it to mine because the drive didnt open properly, then got it flashed and now microsoft thought the xbox had been modded and then they blocked it.

bugger, do they all need flashing or can you buy them that dont?

 

[Laine_16v]

LMAO didnt realise it was you , didn't even check the username lol!!

 

[Blacky950]

bugger, do they all need flashing or can you buy them that dont?

Not to sure buddy, that's just what happened to mine.

 

[rampantreaper]

LMAO didnt realise it was you , didn't even check the username lol!!

lol, it doesnt have a name on it but its a vad6038 which i think is philips

 

[RoryW]

Easiest way is identify which drive you have. Get the same drive from where ever and just swap the pcb's over. No flash required

 

[rampantreaper]

i have looked on ebay for the same drive and it says will need flashing

 

[realnumber 1]

Whats wrong with the one you have? If it's not reading disks then I would just look at swapping the lasers over.

 

[rampantreaper]

well it doesnt open unless a disc is in it too, so im just thinking new is better, unless a belt and laser will cure it

 

[Adam.]

You will need to get the drive key off the old drive otherwise the Xbox will reject it.

 

[rampantreaper]

i guess i could get a new belt to see if that cures the opening problem and if it does get a laser

 

[RoryW]

i have looked on ebay for the same drive and it says will need flashing

It won't. If you had say a Samsung Ms25 you just purchase the same drive. Remove Pcb board from your old drive and put it in the new drive after removing it.

Been repairing & flashing drives for donkeys, I assure you it's possible this way. If you weren't putting the same model drove in you'd need to flash yea but like for like drive swaps it's not needed

 

[RoryW]

You will need to get the drive key off the old drive otherwise the Xbox will reject it.

Hence my comment by swapping the Pcb over. Drive key will move over to the drive when you swap the Pcb over.

 

[Carbon-Rain]

You could always head over to http://www.360mods.net where you will find all the information you need to flash the drive and also help with fixing broken ones. If you flash the drive with the latest ixtreme 3.0 you have a very slim chance of getting banned from xbox live. the new firmwares act exactly like the m$ ones. You will need the lastest firmware on the drive to be able to read the new ap25 version disks anyway.

 

[Adam.]

You will get banned sooner or later. Every ixtreme I ever ran was 'undetectable' by Microsoft and I still got banned.

 

[RoryW]

You will get banned sooner or later. Every ixtreme I ever ran was 'undetectable' by Microsoft and I still got banned.

If he wanted to replace the drive and use the flash method instead of swapping boards he wouldn't be installed a hooky FW. Simple dump of old drive and flash that dump to new drive. Standard fw is nothing to worry, modified fw obviously is.