Topic: How To Replace A Hitachi Drive (Read 285 times)

wailupe2000 · « **Reply #75 on:** October 15, 2007, 05:16:00 PM »

Ok, I have a Hitachi 0079FL. I would like to replace this drive with one which can be software flashed. From what I understand I can read from my 0079FL but not write to it without a maximus passkey installed. I dont want to solder my 0079FL because I suck at soldering and dont want to risk bricking my drive. I am looking to buy a replacement drive off of ebay and have a few questions.
1. Which drive is best for software based modding?
2. will I be able to extract my original drive key without soldering my 0079FL?
3. After extracting my drives key, what tools to I need to use?

I know that some of these questions have been asked before, but I haven't been able to find anything detailed about the 0079FL drive replacement.

Thanks,

wailupe2000 · « **Reply #76 on:** October 16, 2007, 01:42:00 PM »

wailupe2000 · « **Reply #77 on:** October 16, 2007, 08:23:00 PM »

bump!

dragon.ryoshin · « **Reply #78 on:** October 22, 2007, 04:04:00 PM »

Whenever I try to flash keys, it says to enter dvd game or movie disc. but everytime i do it doesnt recognize it. I just got a new drive. any help? would be appreciated.

juan23 · « **Reply #79 on:** November 28, 2007, 08:07:00 PM »

i seem to be having the same issue, i even flash in dos however it wont flash the old key into the new drive. always seems to hang or freeze my comp. I have had successful flashes on other drives as well so I know my chipset is fine.

I have used toolbox version 4. manual flash with 59flash drive letter etc...

I can update the firmware and even spoof it, i just cant seem to patch that key from the old drive, soon as I hit flash keys it freezez or it cant communicate with drive.

when i manually flash in dos it takes 7 - 10 min then it says its done, however when i memdump to check it still has the original key to that drive.

I am swapping out a dead 46dh drive to a new 59dj drive.

TIA

This post has been edited by juan23: Nov 29 2007, 04:11 AM

juan23 · « **Reply #80 on:** November 29, 2007, 07:41:00 AM »

well I finally got it to work, very odd that I couldnt flash strings or spoof before final firmware update.

I had to do everything in reverse in order for it to work properly

Happy days again, thank for all the help and great tutorials.

Terriff · « **Reply #81 on:** December 14, 2007, 03:43:00 PM »

QUOTE(wailupe2000 @ Oct 15 2007, 05:16 PM)

Ok, I have a Hitachi 0079FL. I would like to replace this drive with one which can be software flashed. From what I understand I can read from my 0079FL but not write to it without a maximus passkey installed. I dont want to solder my 0079FL because I suck at soldering and dont want to risk bricking my drive. I am looking to buy a replacement drive off of ebay and have a few questions.
1. Which drive is best for software based modding?
2. will I be able to extract my original drive key without soldering my 0079FL?
3. After extracting my drives key, what tools to I need to use?

I know that some of these questions have been asked before, but I haven't been able to find anything detailed about the 0079FL drive replacement.

Thanks,

Unfortunately, you are going to have to either solder something on your 79FL (passkey, Infectus, Maximus key) to get your DVD key or send it to someone to extract it for you.

Once you have the key, you can easily software flash either the BenQ VAD6038 or Samsung TS-H943. I'm sure the other Samsung models are as easy, but I have only personally had experience with the TS-H943.

The BenQ drives are quieter, but require an nVidia motherboard SATA chipset or external SATA card with a VIA 6421 chipset (this seems to be the favourable chipset) to flash. I believe the SATA chipset compatibility is much higher for flashing Samsung drives (research). There seem to be quite a few Samsung drives on eBay for around $50. That would probably be your best bet.

I've flashed both BenQ and Samsung with the VIA chipset SATA card with no problems. I use a 256MB USB key that is bootable to a Win98 DOS. On the drive, I have the latest DOSFLASH, FIRMTOOL, original firmware files, and current hacked firmwares.

I use FIRMTOOL to transfer the keys to the hacked firmware (or I use Firmware toolbox to create the hacked firmware before booting into DOS), then DOSFLASH to flash. Done!

Hope that helps

Boba_Fett · « **Reply #82 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:00:00 AM »

So I have a quick question. I spoofed my v79 key into a v78 drive successfully without using iXtreme fw (because of the bans and whatnot). In the future (lets say I get banned because MS can tell if I swapped or I just end up not caring about XBL anymore) how would I go about flashing my spoofed (yet unhacked) v78? Just unspoof, flash with FWToolbox and respoof?

antiochos · « **Reply #83 on:** December 21, 2007, 06:01:00 AM »

my hitachi 47dj is dead, and i ve bought Samsung Ms28...

The salesman said that it is brand new. I plugged it to Xbox360 but , Samsung drive's tray does not open...

Green Light Flashes and is says opening, closing but , the drive does not respond.

When i plug the sata cable to pc, i can see the Samsung drive on bios....

Is this something wrong with samsung? Or if i spoof the drive everything will be ok???

I think , even if i dont spoof the drive, when i plug the power cable, and sata cable to Xbox, it must play audio discs and anything, tray must open, but i should not play games...

Sorry if my english is bad, i ve tried to tell you as much as i could...

This post has been edited by antiochos: Dec 21 2007, 02:02 PM

Its_me_again · « **Reply #84 on:** February 04, 2008, 12:54:00 PM »

I think I got the hang of spoofing an Hitachi as another Hitachi, the problem is I got 2 possible keys for my drive so I have to try them both. The first time wont be a problem, but for the second time I'll have to restore the drive. How do I exactly restore a spoofed Hitachi with FW Toolbox? Should I load in the original file without the key changed or the firmware spoofed and to a "Differential Patch (RESTORE)"? Or should I take the file where the key already has been replaced?

Thanks.

thavarin · « **Reply #85 on:** February 04, 2008, 01:10:00 PM »

I just got a replacement for my 59.

Replacing with a MS25.

I replaced the key for an sammie ixteme fw with my key from mb. And spoofed to as 59 using the latest tb and fw,

still not recognizing game.

what am I doing wrong?

danked · « **Reply #86 on:** June 11, 2008, 12:05:00 PM »

Is there any way to put a Hitachi 47, in an elite in place of the 79FK, is there any way to get the key and replace without soldering

imamilien · « **Reply #87 on:** October 04, 2008, 12:21:00 AM »

ok ive been readin fourms and guides for the past few days now and i am at tha halfway point of what it is im tryna do and its giving me a headache. I have a 360 with a hitachi 78fk and im tryna replace it with an samsung ms25 drive. I read tha guide ta transfer my 78fk key to the Xtremev5.3 firmware. I used samtool and everything copied over just fine. I checked the xtreme5.3 samsung ms25 fimrware file with firmware tool box and it is recognized as a hitachi 78fk now. Im completely ok there but my question is wha do i do next? Ive tried loadin the xtreme 5.3 file with xtremebootmaker and iprep. it gives me an error in xtreme bootmaker but still allows me to make a folder and all. iprep wont let me load it at all. Does anyone have any advice or what to possibly do next? Can i jus ignore the error in xtremebootmaker and use samhack xxxxxxx xxxxx in dos? or is there something im missing here? any help would be appreciated thanks.

CoLD FiRE · « **Reply #88 on:** November 05, 2008, 03:51:00 PM »

QUOTE

1) Assuming you have already Restored your Hitachi Drive, a copy of your original Hitachi Firmware ( often called was.bin in flashing directory) and have the bin/Key from the samsung
2) Get your Drive recognized by windows (slax).
3) Open Up Firmware Toolbox
-Open Up Samsung Firmware in Firmware Toolbox
5) Copy The samsung Key and paste into Notepad
6) Open up the Hitachi Original Firmware in FWToolbox
7) Go back to notepad and copy the Key

Select Key area in Toolbox and Paste the Key , Click "Replace"
9) Flash the Key to the Drive, Tools >> Direct Drive Flash (GDR only) >> Flash Keys
10) Now If you want to Flash With Hacked FW (iXtreme), now is the Time to do it (won't Explain that) Once Finished,
11) Spoof Firmware, Tools >> Spoof Firmware
12) Click, Samsung XXXX >> Apply Spoof
13) Flash Spoof Data, Tools >> Direct Drive Flash (GDR Only) >> Flash String ID (Spoof Data)
14) Choose Drive and the flasher, Then Click "Start Flashing"

And your done, Hope this helped

I have a Samsung drive (MS25) and I'm gonna replace it with a Hitachi (59)

I don't get how to do step no.10! what am I supposed to do exactly?

am I supposed to flash the Hitachi with e.g. "iXtreme1.4_Hitachi" in this step or what?

any help is appreciated..

SomeGuy1985 · « **Reply #89 on:** November 21, 2008, 11:51:00 PM »

Hi. I have a question about spoofing the firmware of my Hitachi drives. My current Xbox 360 originally had an Hitachi "V59DJ" drive. I flashed the drive after I bought it used on ebay a few months ago. It flashed successfully, but the drive has not worked very well since I bought it. I would have to eject a game several times and reload it before it would load a disc. Now, it gives me a "Dirty Disc" error every time I try to play a game. I have a "V78FK" Hitachi drive from my old Xbox 360. I would like to use my old(V78) drive on my new Xbox. I found a tutorial on how to obtain the key from V78 drives without soldering so I now have the keys for both of my drives. I checked this forum to see if I could find a tutorial on spoofing a V78 to make the Xbox detect it as a V59 but I could not find one. Could someone tell me if this is possible and if so, could someone tell me where I could get information on how to do this without soldering?

Thanks

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