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[lip008]

A month ago I bricked my Hitachi drive and have since ordered a new one.
Following user guides was able to get it spoofed and back up and running with originals.
At the point now where FT shows the drive as being spoofed but on step using Smart Hack Patcher where I get 'not all variables resolved'.
I see where people have had this on the first run trying to flash but my spoof was successful.
The first time around I don't know what went wrong using Maximus-Garyopa 2.2 Hitachi and am hesitant as I don't want a second bricked drive...
Any help is appreciated.

[lip008]

No Joy!  

Is this a newb request or nobody has any ideas....

[lip008]

Looking over the readme in FT it states:

MAKE SURE THE DETAILS SHOWS AN FULLY ORIGINAL FILE, if labels as "Spoofed"
   or "XTREME" appear on the details then IS NOT AN ORIGINAL FILE.

I guess where I'm confused is if I had to spoof the drive to begin with to get it work then how does the original file come into play?  

Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to flash a spoofed drive?

[lip008]

Reading through whatever I can find am I right that I should of flashed first then went with the spoof?  It seems like I'm going to need to restore the replacement drive back to original firmware,  flash, then spoof?  

If this is correct then what additional steps would I need that this tutorial says ask forums about?

RESTORING A DRIVE TO ORIGINAL STATE
-----------------------------------
 - To do a restore on Hitachi versions prior to 78 use the RESTORE.BAT file
   that was included on those versions, please note that IF your drive was
   spoofed then the restoring would need aditional steps, ask forums.

[lip008]

bricked....thanks!

[smuddge37]

why were you using ft to do anything.....
jf is what you should have been using and if this is your second bricked drive you should not be doing it yourself obviously.
find someone local who can fix your drives or replace the logic boards likely cheaper than ordering another and going through the same thing again!!!
if you need help pm me and i will see what i can do for you.
i have plenty of spare boards and if you have original firmware i can make a board up for you and send you what you need preflashed.

[lip008]

Thanks for the reply.

After flashing my drive always worked with original discs but only a few backups would play.  The backups that don't play work in another 360 with a hitachi drive.   I was thinking that the firmware I used wasn't the best and I guess got into trouble/confused with C4EVA_XTRM 2.2 stealth or whatever.  I thought it was different so I may get better results.

I've used memorex, verbatim, and fuji discs. Some load...most don't.  Could I of still done something wrong with the flash or if at least one backup loads using the 1.51 extreme can this 360 just be more picky about media?

I tried some of the other ways of getting media to boot...toggling the hd switch or whatever with no joy.