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[Shareef187]

Ok, so here's my situation. I have a 360 with a Hitachi 47 DVD drive. I have already installed the iXtreme 1.4 firmware on it, and backed up the original firmware in the process. I am now trying to switch the Hitachi 47 DVD drive with a Samsung MS25 drive I picked up. I have the iXtreme 1.4 firmware for the Samsung, and here's what I've tried using:

I use the firmtool 1.2 to spoof the Samsung 8x iXtreme 1.4 firmware (ix14-8x.bin) with my original Hitachi 47 firmware (was.bin) and it said it was successful. My problem lies with trying to get iPrep to accept this spoofed firmware. First thing I tried was re-compile the Samsung.iXtreme.1.4.rar file, and open that with iPrep. Usually when I load this file without the spoofed firmware, it will first ask me if I want to use the 8x version of the firmware, but when I load the file with the spoofed firmware, it completely skips the 8x, and asks if I want to use one of the others, and when I say no to each, says no acceptable firmwares. I've tried opening the spoofed firmware file directly, and it gives an error.

So, if I may ask, can anyone please help me with the next step(s) for getting this firmware flashed onto my MS25 drive? Any help will be most appreciative.

[Shareef187]

Ok, so here's my situation now. I am trying to follow Textbooks tutorial for flashing MS25 drives. It suggests to use a USB pen drive with iPrep. I do not have a USB pen drive, and have been trying to use my external hard drive instead. Problem with that is iPrep does not allow me the option to make the device bootable, and when I try booting up, is says I'm missing the NTDLR (or something like that) file and to reboot. Is there any way I could make it bootable manually?

Also, what I did to solve my problem from before was I just used the regular ixtreme firmware without spoofing to set up the files on my drive, and I replaced the Sam-CFW.bin file with my spoofed fw file in the iprep\cfw\ folder. Will this work? Could I then just directly flash this to the drive without needing to backup the original firmware since this drive did not come from my motherboard?

Also, if anyone is actually reading this, if I may say, I had not received a response to my first question after waiting several hours (I know it's the weekend and all, but when something you're trying to do doesn't work, every minute feels like an eternity), and I've noticed in my searches for this info that many other people whom ask for help never get a response. I know I'm probably going to be stepping on toes saying this, and I hope you'll understand I'm just trying to get some helpful advice here, but come on! I've tried the pinned threads, and the tutorials are mostly outdated, referring to Xtreme fw's instead of iXtreme's, and using old versions of these tools. I know how annoying it can be when people ask the same questions answered in the pinned threads, but it would be nice to either keep them updated, or be helpful to people who ask. Some of them might be like me, whom have tried to get the info on their own, but can't since they are no longer viable tutorials. I'm not trying to be rude here, and mean no offense. I'm simply asking for someone to take the time and provide some assistance.

This post has been edited by Shareef187: Feb 10 2008, 06:14 AM

[caster420]

QUOTE(Shareef187 @ Feb 10 2008, 12:03 AM)

Also, what I did to solve my problem from before was I just used the regular ixtreme firmware without spoofing to set up the files on my drive, and I replaced the Sam-CFW.bin file with my spoofed fw file in the iprep\cfw\ folder. Will this work? Could I then just directly flash this to the drive without needing to backup the original firmware since this drive did not come from my motherboard?

 

Yup, flash away.  Since you're replacing your hitachi dvd-rom, the firmware from the ms25 is of no use to you.  Flash the firmware you created with firmtool and you should be good to go.


Caster.

[Shareef187]

Thanks for the response. Now I know how to proceed, now I just need to get my external drive to properly boot.

[podger]

You are getting the NTDLR error cor the disk was formatted with W2k or Xp and it has an NTFS bootsector... IF you want to boot off that disk you will have to format it in Win 98 or DOS, using "Format /s".... Do a google for a Dos boot disk image, build a bootable floppy, usually they have tools on them like SYS and FORMAT, FDISK etc...

You might be just quicker using a floppy with iPrep...

This post has been edited by podger: Feb 11 2008, 12:42 AM

[Shareef187]

Actually, I decided to just make things easy and went out and bought a USB pen drive. But now I'm running into a completely different problem (what else is new (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)), when running mktflash, it just hangs, and never lets me give it the command for which sata slot to use. I'm guessing that my motherboard sata chipset is not compatible. It's an Nforce 680i LT board. I read that the MS25 drives worked on Nforce 3/4 boards, so I thought mine might work, but I'm guessing not. I have already placed an order for a via PCI card, which will hopefully arrive before the end of the week. Hopefully then I can FINALLY finish what I've started. Thanks for all the help guys. Guess having a little patience helps... I was just on my last nerve last night after spending around 4-5 hours getting absolutely nowhere on what I thought would be a routine operation. Flashing my Hitachi 47 was a piece of cake, and the guy I bought the MS25 off of said it was even easier, so I was suprised and frustrated. I was about 2 hours late for a party because I kept thinking I was "so close." LOL

This post has been edited by Shareef187: Feb 11 2008, 02:29 AM