Topic: Is My Hitachi Bricked? (Read 78 times)

HackMy360 · « **on:** January 20, 2007, 05:17:00 PM »

Please help me I flashed my drive with the garyopa 2.3 rev.2 and everything seemed fine untill today while trying to play one of my original games I pused the eject button to open the tray and it wont open it just flashed but nothing moves no motor or anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/uhh.gif) I hope I didn't brick my drive (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Please if this has happened to anybody please let me know. by the way drive is hitachi 47DJ

jameswalter · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2007, 05:58:00 PM »

Did you use the 2-wire method? Have you checked the cables are snug?

HackMy360 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2007, 06:47:00 PM »

no I used the slax cd and double checked all the connection but now it won't even open and I get the error 66 upon bootup. Can I swap drives with a samsung or does it have to be hitachi or can I recover the from the bad flash. Let me know

diablofreak · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2007, 07:48:00 PM »

if it s a bad flash, you should be able to find someone to recover the flash for you in the BST section
if you want you can also swap to a samsung but you need to spoof it to report a hitachi 47DJ since thats what you xbox is 'married' to, you will also need the encryption key from your old hitachi if you ever need to swap drives. as long as you have a backup bin file you have the old encryption key

did it just stop ejecting one day? or was it after you attempted to reflash?

This post has been edited by diablofreak: Jan 21 2007, 03:49 AM

HackMy360 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2007, 08:47:00 PM »

Everything was fine flash was 100% originals and one backup worked. Then I shut of my system and when I went to turn it on again I tried opening the tray to play a game and it would not open so I tried restarting and still nothing I tried putting my drive in mode b to restore the original firmware and now it won't let me windows just keeps freezing on bootup so I guess is is bricked (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I saw an MS25 drive on ebay for 50$ does the garyopa 2.3 firmware make a backup of my key? If so do you recommend switching drives as this one would not read anything and what would be the procedure on making the swap work? Thanks for your info

caster420 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:41:00 PM »

Yes, it makes a backup of your key. In the numbered directory, there will be key.bin and was.bin, both of which will have your key.

Was this the drive that originally came with the drive? E66 is an issue with the firmware itself. See if you can get the drive into modeB still, boot into windows and use the restore.bat that came with the firmware.

Caster.

HackMy360 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2007, 12:56:00 AM »

Yea this is the original drive that came with my xbox and to correct myself its not the error 66 that I'm getting it's error 64 when I have the drive connected to the xbox it will give me that error and not boot to the dashboard, but if I unplug it then it lets me go to the dashboard which makes me think that this drive is a gonner. I can get the drive into modeb by opening the tray manually and then unplugging the console but when windows is loading it takes about 10 minutes and then says its going to shut down in 1 minute because hardware failure so I can't even run the restore or anything. Maybe its time to look for another 360 possibly with the sammy drive and scrap this one as I see no hope in fixing this drive.

HackMy360 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 21, 2007, 08:53:00 PM »

Well I had to resort on buying another xbox 360 maybe next time I'll remember to stop being a dumbass (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Any sudjestions on what I can do with the spare parts everything works except the dvd drive

jameswalter · « **Reply #8 on:** January 21, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »

The XS BST thread.....or ebay.

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