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[yamahaaudiofan]

i would try ebay. just search for Ts-h943

[eadinc]

I am really not worried about finding the find online I really just want to know if it is possible and what the steps are to replacing it.

[yamahaaudiofan]

oh yea, if you want to replace the DVD drive just buy another, plug in the power and SATA cable and thats it. your xbox wont know the differance. my brother actually changed his drive from Samsung to Hitachi i think it was.

[eadinc]

Really!!! Good becuase this was not my 360 it was my friends and I really feel bad that i broke the damn thing. Does anyone else have any info on this?

[langnao]

u wanna recall what u had done cos it is not so easy to brick a samsung drive?

Anyway for your case , if you wanna get, get a samsung drive rather than hitachi drive. So far, for swapping of drive, we are still waiting for success story for samsung(original) - hitachi(replace) swap thou the vice versa had been proven ...

[eadinc]

Its bricked thats really all i can tell you. I am looking now for a samsung drive but not having much luck. I was not thinking of swapping with a hitachi

[Textbook]

QUOTE(yamahaaudiofan @ Nov 10 2006, 08:38 AM)

oh yea, if you want to replace the DVD drive just buy another, plug in the power and SATA cable and thats it. your xbox wont know the differance. my brother actually changed his drive from Samsung to Hitachi i think it was.

Sorry .. that's either a load of BS or you're mistaken somewhere along the line.  You can't just replace the drive plug n' play.  You will need the unique drive key from the original drive (from the original firmware dump) and you will need to flash the new drive with a firmware with that key injected into it.

[langnao]

QUOTE(eadinc @ Nov 10 2006, 10:47 PM)

Ok now we are talking. Thats what I thought i might have to do. I didnt think that M$ would just let you change out your drive. Well i do have the orig.bin file from the drive that i bricked, now all i need is a replacement TS-H943 MS25

Since you have the orig.bin(the key), it is not much of a problem. You can even do it now that's to inject the key into the extreme firmware. When u gotten the new samsung drive, just flash it. However, before doing that it is still a good practise to dump out the original firmware just in case u need it in future.

Regarding the swapping of drive, one of the reasons of doing that is because of availability. Seems like it is easier to get hold of a hitachi drive. But when u do that, you will have to change the drive model else you would have gotten the E66 error (since your original drive is samsung). However, currently we don't have a success story for such swapping unless you r willing to try ... People swapping from hitachi to samsung had been successful.

[eadinc]

Does anyone have any links for a replacement drives?

[starmos]

i got same probelem with 2 x360 i got E65 dead drive on both

[langnao]

QUOTE(starmos @ Nov 10 2006, 11:15 PM)

i got same probelem with 2 x360 i got E65 dead drive on both

all original or swapped drives? What happened? A big flash? I had read some gotten it after flashing ...

[starmos]

yes orginal drive

[langnao]

QUOTE(starmos @ Nov 10 2006, 11:35 PM)

yes orginal drive

Try to load back the orig.bin. You may need the 10sec. trick if the enable0800 disc cannot be used. Known someone who gotten E65(DVD drive error) after doing wrong with the key injection but manage to fix it...

[alyt]

QUOTE(eadinc @ Nov 10 2006, 04:59 PM)

Does anyone have any links for a replacement drives?

here ya go mate Replacement Drive

Just realise you dont have orifginal firmware so these wont be any use to you.

[starmos]

 i  flashe the drives with Toshiba-Samsung_360_Auto_Flasher_v3.2 and the it frezzd when i look inn   backup folder i dont find the orginfirm but its to late anyway i have formated the usb pin