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[The Anarchist]

once it begins to hang when you try to get it in mode b eject the drive and see it it continues and gets recognised then shutdown your computer properly and it should revert back to normal 360 mode.

[The Anarchist]

ok guys i think i no th prblem.
i think it is that you have not given a drive letter for the drive in windows and the eject problem is probebly somthing to do with the 360 and not being connected by sata. try buying the connectivity kit and that should sort your problems.

[geebee]

If you get it into mode b and windows cannot see it…go to Device Manager and see if it is in there under “DVD/CD ROM Drives”. If it is, right click on it and select “Properties”. Then select the “Volumes” tab and click “Populate”. Now go to My Computer and it should be visible.

[poonation]

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The setup utility just says there are not enough drives for a raid setup and doesnt even list the drive.  

Get into your PC bios and disable the RAID option for your SATA as that cna also be the problem as to why it wont boot.  RAID will not help a DVD drive  just an idear

[iiooiioo]

Thank you all for the replies.  

I can not see the drive in windows at all.  One computer hangs ona  bios screen and one just does not show the drive in windows at all.  I cant disable raid on one of my computers because that is what controls the SATA and on my other, the drive is being recognized as a CD Rom ata 100, but doesnt show anything in windows.  

Will the connectivity kit fix any of these issues?  I dont want to go out and buy one just to figure out it doesnt work.  Thanks again for your support.

[mcmanic]

try turning on the 360 connected to your sata after the post screens on your pc a few secs before the slax disc autoruns. Thats the only way i can get slax to find my hitachi otherwise the pc will hang on bootup

[iiooiioo]

Thanks to previous posts, i have been able to get my drive seen in windows, but when i try the xtreme.bat file it seems to have many errors.  It says IOdeviceerror, "failed to stop the disc".  My system is also going very slow with this setup and the cursor keep blinking with the little CD indicator like a CD is being read in the drive.  Any suggestions?  

Also, the .bat made an orig.bin, is there anyway i could confirm this is really my firmware?  It seems it cannot communicate with the drive yet it made a backup of my original firmware, perhaps the drive can read but not write?  Thanks again for any help.

[iiooiioo]

Is anyone else getting this "failed to stop the disc" error in the hitachi?  I have seen many others with flash errors but none with this one.  Thanks.

[iiooiioo]

Well its the end of day 2 and i still have no xbox drive.  I checked my firmware original and it is a correct dump.  It seems my computer can output but not flash correctly.  My other computer woudnt put the drive into modeb so i used my original computer to do that and plugged in the sata and booted up the other computer.  The drive was found in windows but flashing failed with the same error.  

Is there a command prompt program i can use to flash the drive?  Will that work better than windows or should i just not try?

[Hatred]

when the computer hangs try presssing the eject button on the 360 it shud load then or read my tutorial on how it did. that might help or show you smething you missed.

[snes_83]

iiooiioo, what did you do to get your drive detected in windows? I am having the same problem as you are right now... (detected in BIOS, but not in windows).

snes_83

[snes_83]

SUCCESS!!!! woo hoo!!!

All I had to do was change my sata settings in the bios, and jump wires 0 and 9 before it loaded windows.

It detected the 360 dvd drive, and the flashing process worked on my second try (on the first try, one of the flashing processes failed.... not sure why)

Here is what it looked like in DOS when it worked:

About to Flash Hitachi drive f

Press any key to continue . . .

Dumping original firmware


Flashing sector 9003e000 (Master Checksum)...

done

Flashing sector 90035000 (Security Sector Read)...

done

Flashing sector 9001c000 (Drive Response Table Decrypt)...

done

Flashing sector 90003000 (Custom Code)...

done

Flashing sector 90027000 (Challenge Response)...

done

Done...

Press any key to continue . . .





BUT, I still have the problem of the drive not ejecting.... what the hell?

Could I buy a replacement 360 DVD drive and flash it with the orig.bin file that was created? would that work?

Also, I noticed that it DOES eject if I right click the drive in windows and click eject.... that 's strange...




How do I make a COMPLETE backup of my hitachi firmware, so I can buy a replacement drive and flash it?

I'm thinking I might have to do this to fix my eject problem....