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Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: the-ghoul on October 23, 2007, 11:06:00 PM

I purchased a replacement Hitachi drive from Etech4sale and got a disc along with it.

It was still in the drive and it was marked "1529 Recovery.ISO"

The files on the disc (its a burned disc) are

RECMEDIA (folder)
default.xex 1,386k
drivers.xex 306 k
recctrl.bin 26k
recdata.bin 88,740
recini.ini 1k (contains: "[xbdm] drivemap internal=1" )
xam.xex 1,604
xbdm.ini  1k
xbdb.xex 195k
xboxroma.bin 184k
xboxromsb.bin 204k
xboxromw1d.bin 204k
xeboot 1k
xnet.xex 927kb


Theres also some bitmapped image files included , one says "UPDATING, RECOVERING WITH DEFAULT SETTINGS, DO NOT POWER OFF or REBOOT"


What the heck is it?

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: Deltagunner on October 24, 2007, 02:27:00 PM

If I had to guess I would say it is some sort of internal testing disc used at the MS repair center.  I know when I got a new drive from Etech4sale it had a pressed disc that was labeled "XStress Retail Media".  So leaving this sort of thing in the drive must be common for ms employees.   Have you tried it in your 360 to see what happens?

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: Libtoem on February 02, 2020, 09:19:00 PM

What you have is a Xbox 360 recovery disc used for updating a 360 development kit or a 360 debug kit to a higher kerenl.That recovery disc is very old,also its of no use in a retail kit.

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: MaxP on February 03, 2020, 06:41:00 AM

QUOTE(Libtoem @ Oct 25 2007, 05:19 AM)

What you have is a Xbox 360 recovery disc used for updating a 360 development kit or a 360 debug kit to a higher kerenl.That recovery disc is very old,also its of no use in a retail kit.

Shame....
i recon the OP was about to knock one out due to the excitement at having found some some 360 holy grail.

No point keeping this dvd that came in my refurbed box
the writings difficult to read but it says something like
"360 private XBE encrpytion key"

ah well in the bin with the rest of the costers....


(Joke joke joke i dont even have a refurb 360 let alone any mystical dvd's)

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: Hans-Worst on February 03, 2020, 07:40:00 AM

When I got back my repaired xbox almost a year ago, the drive also contained a disc which said "Public Enemy" or something. I thought it was some movie disc, so I threw it away (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: shmigadiga on February 03, 2020, 10:08:00 AM

public enemy is a rap group... its a music cd lol

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: the-ghoul on February 03, 2020, 05:17:00 PM

QUOTE(Libtoem @ Oct 25 2007, 05:19 AM)

What you have is a Xbox 360 recovery disc used for updating a 360 development kit or a 360 debug kit to a higher kerenl.That recovery disc is very old,also its of no use in a retail kit.

Cool. I figured it could have been a Dev kit update or something.

I was kinda hoping it was a "pairing" disc or some other coolness.

I cant wait to get home brew running on the 360. XBMP FTW.

Title: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: Eddie_the_Hated on February 03, 2020, 06:38:00 PM

Heh, it's certainly interesting to see what makes it back to the customer.

Y'see? If I were a Microsoft employee with not a shred of self-preservation, I'd have such a good time working at the Repair Center.

Repair the drives, ship 'em back with blank DVD-Rs with sharpie on 'em.

"Xbox Live Dashboard Alpha Testing"
"RRoDEngineeredObselescence.exe"
"Area 51: Fire Escape Route Map"
"Bill & Melinda: Honeymoon '94"
"Grassy Knoll After-Action Report"

 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

This post has been edited by Eddie_the_Hated: Today, 02:38 AM

Title: Re: This May Mean Nothng, But I Found A Weird Burned Disc In My 360 Drive
Post by: bowser22 on June 26, 2021, 03:05:19 AM

This was an internal recovery for the Alpha g5 Xenon kits. thanks again ghoul !