Hey guys, I wonder if anyone has experiened this.
Last night I tried to flash my 360 with 5.3 xtreme firmware. I have a Pal-uk 360 with Samsung drive & MS25 f/w on it from the first batch released to the UK back in Dec 2005 & i've never had any problems with it.
My problem lies in booting my comp into DOS from USB flash drive.
Im using a USB DISK PRO 128mb flash drive. I ran xtreme bootmaker, did everything mentioned in "hacking the 360 for noobs" by textbook, and bootmaker said "all done, happy flashing"
So i powered off the PC, unplugged all IDE cables, plugged in the USB flash drive & booted. It wont boot. Instead it takes ages detecting IDE devices, only to report there are none, then says "veryfying DMI pool data" and then gives me this :- DISK BOOT ERROR, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
I set my PC to boot from USB in BIOS but it still gives me the error. I tired making the primary boot device USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, etc, etc. I've made sure that BIOS is set correctly but it still wont boot. i tried making the USB stick bootable again, still didnt work. I've tried very obvious answer, to no avail.
My Mobo is a VIA based ECS km800v2 with Pheonix AwardBIOS v6.00.
Does anyone know the answer?
If i plug the USB stick into my PC and right click it and try to format it, I gt the menu but the "make MS-DOS bootable" checkbox cannot be checked. Maybe this means the USB stick dosnt support booting>? Or do they all support booting if set up correctly?
Im gonna try again tonight but on my parents computer which is a shuttle SK43g. It is also based on the VIA VT8237 SATA chipset so it should be ok for flashing.
If i can boot into DOS from USB on my parents PC, flash the drive etc, can I then use my other ECS pc to dump backups? Im only gonna be able to use parents PC for an hour while I flash the drive. IS it ok to flash with one, then
Any helop at all would eb appreciated.
Cheers
Joey.