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Xbox360 Forums => Xbox 360 Hacking Forums => Technical DVD-ROM and Modified DVD Firmware Forum => Topic started by: stevent76 on May 17, 2006, 05:58:00 PM

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: stevent76 on May 17, 2006, 05:58:00 PM

I was trying to do the firmware hack and it looks like i killed my dvd drive. When i started the flash to put the xtrm0800.bin on it the floppy gave a read error. Drive has been dead ever since. Is there anything i can do or am i pretty much screwed?

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: cerealkillajme on May 17, 2006, 06:21:00 PM

If you managed to dump the key then you can de-solder the rom chip from the board (very hard supposedly) and use a programmer to flash the orig or another back onto it. There is some more info on this at xboxhacker forums.

EDIT: If you didn't dump your key then your probably screwed.

This post has been edited by cerealkillajme: May 18 2006, 01:24 AM

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: OEM on May 17, 2006, 06:52:00 PM

Well, as far as I know its almost impossible to brick a Mediatek based drive such as the Samsung. Even if it appears to be dead, you should still be able to reflash it using mtkflash.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: stevent76 on May 17, 2006, 07:45:00 PM

I have tried several different ways to flash it but i cannot get it to work. I also dont have a backup of my original. The floppy died in the middle of flashing and hasnt been readable since. I dont want to have to scrap my 360

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: Da Mafia on May 17, 2006, 09:32:00 PM

QUOTE(stevent76 @ May 18 2006, 02:52 AM)

I'm sorry but I thought almost everybody knew by now that if your going to be doin anything major on a computer, you make sure you back up the original first so if anything goes wrong then you have something to fall back on.

Even the tutorial with the firmware tells you to make a backup of yours first, plus you need it anyway to get your drives key to place in the hacked firmware, so I have no idea what you was doing.

Maybe next time you should read up on what your doing before diving right in and breaking things.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: brywalker on May 17, 2006, 09:36:00 PM

Sounds pretty boned if you didn't back up.

I'll give you $50 for the broken 360.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: rkkman on May 17, 2006, 09:47:00 PM

I got $75

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: feflicker on May 17, 2006, 11:29:00 PM

If you have your orig.bin (backup dump), you could put a different working drive on your sata controller from another 360, get it booted to dos (or even mtkflash), hotswap the good one with the bad one, and flash the bad drive. Try various hot-swap methods with a working drive, you can probably get it to flash (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

EDIT: Oh yeah, in my compat list on Xboxhacker I actually posted a while ago "don't do the firmware update from a floppy, do it from hard drive" because of this exact reason. Floppy drives are too damn unreliable (especially ones that are dirty from never getting used lol)

This post has been edited by feflicker: May 18 2006, 06:30 AM

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: stevent76 on May 18, 2006, 05:02:00 AM

QUOTE(Da Mafia @ May 17 2006, 11:39 PM)

I did make a backup, but once it was done backing up i started the flash from the same floppy. That floppy is the one that died. I tried a few different recovery softwares and none of them even show the file on the disk.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: memturbo on May 18, 2006, 05:50:00 AM

QUOTE(stevent76 @ May 18 2006, 12:02 PM)

Have you tried a different floppy drive .
I had the same problem on and old floppy drive before it wouldnt read the disk and got a usb floppy about $20.00 and it read it just fine .

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: stevent76 on May 18, 2006, 07:59:00 PM

I tried a different drive and got the same thing. HELP!!!!

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: DiaM0nd99 on May 18, 2006, 08:12:00 PM

QUOTE(stevent76 @ May 19 2006, 03:06 AM)

I tried a different drive and got the same thing. HELP!!!!

Without your current drive key your Xbox 360 is a brick. There is no way to get the key any other way. Have you tired the floppy in different drives?

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: memturbo on May 18, 2006, 09:27:00 PM

try this it might help http://www.batchconv...oad-19490.shtml

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: |vibez| on May 19, 2006, 01:24:00 AM

My god I would be so gutted if that happend to me. I feel sorry for you bro. Its a good warning for those thinking of flashing from a floppy though

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: craigncheri on May 19, 2006, 05:26:00 AM

I'd recomend working on the floppy drive that has failed for you, often times when floppy drives are failing, they get out of alignment to where any other floppy drive will have difficulties reading data from discs, but the bad drive will still read that data.

Work on the drive try to find out what's wrong with it, and hopefully it's something you can fix.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: joioi50 on May 19, 2006, 05:33:00 AM

is there any specific reason why ppl don't flash from hdd?
also I guess the backup is going to hdd.

Title: Killed My Dvd Drive
Post by: |vibez| on May 19, 2006, 06:34:00 AM

QUOTE(joioi50 @ May 19 2006, 12:40 PM)

is there any specific reason why ppl don't flash from hdd?
also I guess the backup is going to hdd.

My guess is this.....

Vanilla dos doesnt support NTFS, seeing as most people have NTFS formatted drives, they copy the backup to the floppy, hence that is where they usually flash from.

I'm not exactly sure how you would flash from the HDD if dos doesn't support NTFS. I'm a bit uncertain about all of this as i'm waiting for my 360 to arrive.

If anyone can enlighten me on the best way to do this with an NTFS drive, I would appreciate it

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Xbox360 Forums => Xbox 360 Hacking Forums => Technical DVD-ROM and Modified DVD Firmware Forum => Topic started by: stevent76 on May 17, 2006, 05:58:00 PM