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[BlayneRTFM]

I have a 360 with one of the new liteon drives. I recently flashed the firmware on it and it worked fine for awhile then the drive died. I still have all the drive key info on my pc. I am wondering if it is possible to replace it with an old Hitachi-LG drive I have from a busted xbox. The problem is the old hitachi drive was also flashed. When I try to use programs like jungle flash to read the drive - it says there is no drive present. I assume this is because it doesn't have the original firmware. Is there any way I can flash this old drive with a firmware so that I can use it in the xbox with the dead liteon drive?

[MadMaxGR]

I beleieve the problem is the dvd vontroller board or your PORTIO32 driver is not working, otherwise the jungle flasher would recognise it no matter what firmware you have on.

If you have the DVD key then buy a new drive and spoof it with your saved DVD key. Allways bake a backup of the original firmware before you try anything else.

[BlayneRTFM]

Thanks for the reply MadMaxGR. I don't think it's the board as the drive was working fine a week ago and it still ejects fine from within jungle flasher.

I was using a system with the infamous via raid controller so now I want to try it on a system with an nforce SATA controller and see if the drive shows up their.

Unfortunately I am having trouble installing the PORTIO32 driver in Vista.

Does anyone know how to install the PORTIO32 driver onto a Vista system and would the nforce SATA controller be any better than the via controller?

This post has been edited by BlayneRTFM: Sep 9 2009, 09:07 PM

[BlayneRTFM]

OK I got PORTIO32 installed and jungleflash lists my drive in the port properties of the Hitachi-GDR3120 tab and DVDkey32 tab as HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR3120L but in device manager it shows nothing. When I try to put it into mode be I get the following:

JungleFlasher 0.1.62 Beta
Session Started Wed Sep 09 16:14:43 2009


This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs
PortIO is installed and running.
Found 6 I/O Ports.
Found 1 Com Ports.
Found 6 windows drives C: D: F: G: H: I:
Found 0 CD/DVD drives


Drive, answers normal Windows Inquiry 12 0 0 0 24 0
0000: 05 80 00 32 5B 00 00 00 - 48 4C 2D 44 54 2D 53 54 ...2[...HL-DT-ST
0010: 44 56 44 2D 52 4F 4D 20 - 47 44 52 33 31 32 30 4C DVD-ROM GDR3120L
0020: 30 30 34 37                                       0047            


Mode-B Done!
Scanning for hardware changes
Scan returned an error!
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive F: - Removable.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!


Can anybody tell me whats going on? Part of the program says the drive is their and another part of it says its not!

[MadMaxGR]

To see the drive only in the Jungleflasher and not in device manager, is normal. It happens to me as well. The error looks like its a VISTA problem. My guess is that the PORTIO32 is not working on Vista properly. Try it on a XP PC. You have nothing to lose.

[BlayneRTFM]

After 3 hours of hair pulling and groaning, I finally got windows and jungleflash to both recognize my stinkin' hitachi drive - what a pain in the but! Whenever the drive was recognized in windows, it wouldn't show up in jungleflash. Whenever it was recognized in jungleflash, it wouldn't show up in windows.

I tried restarting windows, restarting jungleflash, powering the hitachi drive on and off, openning and closing the tray all in different combinations until I was about to give up. Just for the hell of it, I hit the refresh button one last time before calling it quits and Boom! it shows up in device manager and jungleflash!

After that, everything else was a snap. In fact, I had to pause playing Fallout 3 to type this message. Now that I know my bin files are still good, I'll feel more confident ordering another replacement drive when this old hitachi craps out.

Thanks for the help, MadMaxGR  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[MadMaxGR]

I am glad its working. Enjoy it!