QUOTE(Mineiro @ Jul 20 2006, 12:36 PM)

Hi everybody. i've been always checkin out garyOPA's work, and became a great fan of him. I have only one question. Why you dedicate yourself ony to hitachi-lg drive gary? Why not helping people with samsung-toshiba? I really dont wanna be rude or anything, but you just found out a way to flash hitachi-LG back to original without needing its key! (i believe that right).
Some guy messed up my console, and lost the key of it, so i didnt even played my console, and, yes, im not ashamed of telling you guys, I don't have the money to buy a new one!
So please, dont tell me to sell my console, please, don't judge me by asking gary to dedicate a litlle bit to samsung drive, and please, just help me fix this problem. I know no one can fix it by now, since there's no program or something, but all i want to do is to play this console, that i worked so much to buy, and had so much hope in that stupid technician that did nothing but upset me.
Yes, i dont have money to get him in court... but please, just think about it.
Dont post replies like: dude, find another job so you can buy another console; or: dude, give up, sell your console, and try to buy a new one.
Please, just help me.
PS: sorry if i said anything rude, or uncalled for... Im still a big fan Gary.
The Hitachi is sometimes easier to recover as the "key area" is never flashed, just sections above and
below it.
The Toshiba/Samsung is impossible to recover if you LOST all backups made. As the flasher program
does 100% read, 100% erase, 100% write. --- You need that FIRST 100% READ 256K BACKUP, or you
are dead in the water if anything happens. Sorry to say, the best thing is to sell off the parts on ebay,
at the price people are getting for spare parts, you should be able to sell them all and buy a new X360.
Get hold of the guy that messed up your X360, and see if he has any backups of any kind. If he does,
email them to me, and I will see if I can find your key for you. --- Very little hope.
I have done some behind the scenes stuff for the Toshiba/Samsung owners, but currently everything
out there works great for them. The flasher is way better than Hitachi, the firmware is way better,
and you can even do a full recover (IF YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF COURSE) on a dead drive.
The Hitachi flasher is BUGGY, only works in Windows, drive is even easier to BRICK & DESTORY, and
the bad design of the laser/servo LG-PC junk takes 30 to 45 seconds to boot a game. More work I
think needs to be done on the Hitachi to still bring it up to the level of the Toshiba/Samsung owners.
The only thing I have produced in-house here at OPA for the Toshiba/Samsung, is a much better
auto-flasher but currently only works on VIA chipsets.