Topic: Replacing Hitachi 47 With A 78 (Read 23 times)

dan1983 · « **on:** March 16, 2009, 01:00:00 PM »

I have a bricked 47, but i do have the orig FW and drive key. I bought a replacement 47, but a 78 is what was shipped. I want to confirm that what i need to do is this:

1. flash the key file onto the new drive
2. spoof the 78 as a 47
3. flash ixtreme1.5

syntaxerror329 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2009, 01:43:00 PM »

Its done more like this. Or you will have another brick.

Dump the original firmware from your new 78 to find out key location.

Open up the ixtreme firmware that matched your key location ix151-78-####.bin (with #### being key location)

Spoof ix firmware to v47 and insert/paste in your key to make a new customer hacked firmware for your 78.

Then flash it.

I use maximus toolbox however many people here like jungle flasher.

dan1983 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2009, 09:15:00 PM »

So i dumped the FW from my 78 and the key location was 4C30. I loaded the ix151-78-4c30 and changed the key to be my 47 key and flashed the drive. The system comes up normally and plays my originals, but does not play the backups.

syntaxerror329 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 16, 2009, 09:23:00 PM »

Congrats on a good flash! I think your backups suck or your laser sucks. Its unlikely that any of your isses are related to the flash. Sounds like you got that perfect.

Are these backups that you have already tested and you know for a fact play on other systems?

If your backups are good and firmware is good then you can get a new laser or attempt a pot tweak.

dan1983 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 16, 2009, 09:45:00 PM »

Actually, i *thought* i had opened the ix fw, but i had indeed opened the stock 78 fw, added my key and spoofed it to a 47, so the first time i flashed i was essentially making the box usable again. When i realized this, i flashed it back to the stock 78fw, and opened the ix fw, added the key, spoofed it and all is well, backups and origs play now.

syntaxerror329 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2009, 09:54:00 PM »

Thats great, based on your post it didn't seem like that was the problem. I trusted you could pick the correct file. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Flashing your firmware can be very exciting and tense and that can little to little oversights. These drives are so easy to brick so your are very lucky the mistake you made was so small.

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