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[tonloc79]

I'm using F/W Toolbox 48 and it says "cannot read from drive" and "no sectors to flash" when hitting read and detect differences and start flashing. Have i accidentally deleted the sectors on the drive or what. Just want to know if i'm wasting my time trying to revive this thing and maybe need to buy a new drive off $bay. My PC recognizes the drive and appears to be in mode b/unlocked. Not my first rodeo but this shit has got me stumped? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/uhh.gif)

This post has been edited by tonloc79: Apr 12 2009, 09:04 PM

[Ranger72]

Try the newest Jungle Flasher.

[keztheking]

hi mate this is for toolbox 4.8 if you cant get jf to work on your comp
its for 78 and further down 79

TO RESTORE AN HITACHI 78 OR 79 WITHOUT THE ORIGINAL DUMP
PUT FLASHED DRIVE INTO MODE B TO DO THIS LEAVE TRAY OPEN THEN TURN DRIVE ON OR USE THE SLAX DISC

ONCE IN MODE B FOR 78
AND RECOGNISED IN WINDOWS AND EJECTED TRAY THROUGH WINDOWS CHECK DRIVE LETTER AND REMEMBER IT
INSERT ORIGINAL MOVIE DVD AND CLOSE TRAY KEEP IT CLOSED 3 CLICKS OF THE EJECT BUTTON KEEPS IT CLOSED
OPEN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
CLICK TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE DRIVE IS LISTED IN TOP DROP DOWN BOX (MINE IS D)
SELECT RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
SAVE AS (ORIGINAL) IN A FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP
CLICK YES TO OPEN IT E.C.T
THEN COPY THE DRIVE KEY DISPLAYED IN TOOLBOX
ALSO MAKE NOTE OF "Key information: (@[address])"
E.G (FOR HITACHI 7  78-4b00 78-4c30 78-4d20 78-4e10
OR FOR (HITACHI 79) 79-4b00 79-4e10
THEN OPEN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARES THAT CORISPONDS TO YOUR "Key information: (@[address])"
THEY ARE IN THE FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8 FOLDER
IN A FOLDER CALLED orig_fw
ONCE OPENED PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE FIRMWARE YOU JUST LOADED
AND CLICK SAVE KEY
NOW CLICK ONTO TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE FLASH (GDR ONLY)
THEN ONTO DIFERENTIAL FLASH (RESTORE)
HIT READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES
THEN START FLASHING


FOR A HITACHI 79
PUT FLASHED DRIVE INTO MODE B TO DO THIS LEAVE THE TRAY OPEN
THEN TURN DRIVE ON OR USE THE SLAX DISC

ONCE IN MODE B FOR 79
AND RECOGNISED IN WINDOWS AND EJECTED TRAY THROUGH WINDOWS CHECK DRIVE LETTER AND REMEMBER IT

Insert the 79 Unlock Audio CD into your Hitachi 79 DVD drive (that should already be detected in Windows).
Windows will probably display an Autorun window asking what you want to do with the disc you just inserted.

You should select to Play the Audio CD using Windows Media Player. Let the track play completely, it is about 3 seconds long. After it has finished, hit play again to start playing it again, then immediately hit pause. Hit eject on the Xbox 360 to remove the 79 Unlock Audio CD

RUN THE OPEN COMMAND HERE ON THE 79 UNLOCK FOLDER
From the command prompt, in the 79 Unlock directory, you need to type 79unlock X and hit enter. Where X is the Hitachi drive letter as recognized in Windows.

Depending on your SATA chipset, you may get a done! reply or an error. This means the drive is unlocked and can now be flashed just like a Hitachi 78 using 360 Firmware Toolbox.

Insert an original retail game or movie DVD into the Hitachi drive AND KEEP THE TRAY CLOSED, 3 PRESSES OF THE EJECT BUTTON TO KEEP CLOSED
OPEN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
CLICK TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE DRIVE IS LISTED IN TOP DROP DOWN BOX (MINE IS D)
SELECT RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
SAVE AS (ORIGINAL) IN A FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP
CLICK YES TO OPEN E.C.T
THEN COPY DRIVE KEY DISPLAYED IN TOOLBOX
ALSO MAKE NOTE OF "Key information: (@[address])"
E.G (FOR HITACHI 7  78-4b00 78-4c30 78-4d20 78-4e10
OR (FOR HITACHI 79) 79-4b00 79-4e10
THEN OPEN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARES THAT CORISPONDS TO YOUR "Key information: (@[address])"
THEY ARE IN THE FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8 FOLDER
IN A FOLDER CALLED orig_fw
ONCE OPENED PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE FIRMWARE YOU JUST LOADED
AND CLICK SAVE KEY
NOW CLICK ONTO TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE FLASH (GDR ONLY)
THEN ONTO DIFERENTIAL FLASH (RESTORE)
HIT READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES
THEN START FLASHING
DONE RESTORING





DONE RESTORING
DUMP THE DRIVE TO CHECK ITS RESTORED BACK TO ORIGINAL
TO DO THIS IN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
TOOLS DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
AND SAVE TO FOLDER ON DESKTOP AND NAME IT ORIGINAL
OPEN THIS IN TOOLBOX AND CHECK TO SEE IF ITS RESTORED
COPY THE KEY OUT OF THE DUMP ALSO (NOT REALY NEEDED AS IT WILL ASK YOU TO KEEP KEY ON DRIVE)

THEN OPEN YOUR IXTREME 1.51 FIRMWARE IN TOOLBOX
MAKING SURE TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT ONE THAT MATCHES
YOUR "Key information: (@[address])" SAME AS THE ONE YOU USED TO DO THE RESTORE EARLYER
THEN PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE KEY BOX AND CLICK SAVE KEY
THEN CLICK TOOLS – DIRECT DRIVE FLASH PATCH
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
CLICK READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES (YES TO KEEP KEYS)
START FLASHING
REDUMP TO CHECK ITS FLASHED IXTREME 1.51 IF YOU WISH
FINNISHED

[Paperstack.1]

JungleFlasher does the unlocking with Audio Disc automatically. Try restoring and flashing with that.

[tonloc79]

Ive tried jungleflasher and FW Toolbox but i think that whatever is on my drive isnt right. It still plays dvds through windows media player so i have a hard time thinking its completely shot but neither apps want to flash it for some reason. I know its in mode b and it seems to be unlocked..........?

[hardie]

Dont suppose the firmware is spoofed as another drive?

[3601stTimer]

JF should do the trick, just got a 78 drive to play with, had no problems flashing new firmware and restoring stock vice versa. As above poster said, you sure it is not spoofed?

[tonloc79]

QUOTE(hardie @ Apr 13 2009, 12:53 AM)

Dont suppose the firmware is spoofed as another drive?

I never intentionally spoofed it. I had x1.4 on it and was trying to update to 1.51. Tried to flash orig.bin and ever since then the drive doesnt read games (Originals or backups). But it will play movies through WMP at the very least. When i try to read the firmware thats on it i get (jungleflasher) ram dump - ram upload dump failed. I get the same stuff when i try Restore firmware also.

This post has been edited by tonloc79: Apr 13 2009, 04:08 PM

[hardie]

Youre not having much luck
If you have the copy of the 1.4 xtreme file just open up in jungleflasher to make sure it says hitachi 781.4 xtreme firmware and not hitachi 78 1.4 xtreme firmware spoofed as a
Cant see any other reason as to why you cannot dump the drive if its in mode b and getting detected
Obviously it wasnt a problem with 1.4xtreme this would have your valid key on it provided you have a genuine copy of this hacked file
you could make a copy of this file and rename it to HIT-OFW.bin and try to restore with this and then try to start all over again
name it HIT-OFW.bin for jungleflasher
orig.bin for toolbox

This post has been edited by hardie: Apr 13 2009, 04:41 PM

[3601stTimer]

Are you using WinAPI or PortIO?

[tonloc79]

QUOTE(3601stTimer @ Apr 13 2009, 10:24 AM)

Are you using WinAPI or PortIO?

Im using win API. Port IO is for the VIA Card right? I cant get my PC to recognize the drive with my VIA card, it has always been hit or miss with that thing for me. My onboard sata picks it up fine though. ^^ Ill try and rename my .bin files and see if that makes a differance but i doubt it. Jungleflasher maybe but FWTB says there is no sectors to flash. How come JF doesnt just write to a drive? It always wants to dump it first.

[hardie]

have you disabled the via card drivers for use with portio
its in the tutorial in the appendix that may fix the problem with JF not recognizing the drive
as for JF just not writing to the drive unsure but just know that the procedure for hitachis is DUMP RESTORE and FLASH IXTREME
PS with portio use you cannot see the drive in windows only in JF
with win api it does get assigned a drive letter

This post has been edited by hardie: Apr 14 2009, 05:51 AM

[deilzfcjk]

I feel your pain bro. It might be bricked. Sorry.  Might have to get it reprogrammed.

This post has been edited by deilzfcjk: Apr 14 2009, 06:31 AM

[strawsy]

Believe it or not but I was having problems like this too. Come to find out it was the cables weren't in all the way. If I were you I would unplug the dvd power cable from the motherboard and dvd drive, then plug them back in. If that doesn't work....try using the old maximus restore.bat file and restoring it then flashing it.