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[nateisneato]

I hope this is the right place for this topic. I've seen other topics with people talking about how they got this, but nobody seemed to be doing things the same method I am.

I am replacing my xbox 360's DVD drive, it just doesn't read disks. It is a lite-on drive, and the replacement I bought off ebay is a Benq.

What I did:
1. I soldered my Pololu USB to serial adapter (which I bought here) to the DVD drive like so.
(IMG:http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4810/editedthing.jpg)
(Layout for the adapter)
2. I installed the PortIO32.exe drivers, as well as the Pololu USB to serial adapter drivers from their website.
3. I powered off my computer
4. I used the xbox 360 as a power supply, and plugged the sata into the sata on my PC's motherboard, as well as the usb adapter into the USB port.
5. When I booted the computer, I powered on the xbox 360 with the drive half open. The green light was flashing.
6. I ran jungle flasher, I found the right SATA drive, (or I/O thingy,) because it said "Drive is Lite-on," and the USB adapter was found on COM3, (no other comports were even found,) and it recognized it as "Pololu USB-to-serial adapter"
7. I click DVDkey 32, and it started up, and then I got the dreaded "WARNING! Bad serial data" message.
8. I tried everything, starting the xbox at different times, having the tray in different positions, all ending in that bad serial data message.

What am I doing wrong? Is there another way that I can extract the dummy.bin etc. from the drive? (I mean a different software.) I have already tried DOSflash32, and it didn't work either, I got a "could not remove portio.sys file" error or whatever, but I had the portio32.sys installed correctly into my drivers. Help would be MUCH appreciated!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Thanks a ton in advance!

This post has been edited by nateisneato: Nov 21 2010, 06:47 PM

[iateshaggy]

did it say bad or missing?  if you unsolder the yellow and white wires from the board, it will report as half open, try that.  if you are comfortable w/ soldering, you might as well mra hack the drive.  all you need is a 22 ohm resistor and a scrap of wire.  there are a million thread a day asking why non standard serial extractors don't work so i have little faith in them.

[nateisneato]

I'm going to try the MRA hack, thanks for the really quick reply! +Rep (if you have this on this board... idk... lol)  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[nateisneato]

Sorry about the double post, I couldn't edit my post though... so, would I want to remove that circled part I soldered together to do the MRA hack?

[iateshaggy]

yes