Post by: scottweiland on December 21, 2006, 01:08:00 AM
Everything seems to be right, but I cant get Schtrom or Xbox Backup Creator to read my disk
Heres what I have:
Via 6421 SATA PCI card
Samsung TS-H943 ms25 - Xbox DVD Drive
Lite-On DVDRW SHW-160965 DVD Burner
Verbatim DVD+R DL DVD media
Win XP W/ SP2
I copied my firmware. Injected the key into the Extreme 5.0b firmware, and flashed my Xbox DVD and It completed. After a while of failing miserably to get into windows with the Xbox turned on I thought it might be a bad flash and tried to flash again. Now I cant flash because the computer freezes right after I select the master SATA channel, and right before it flashes (It cant be read either).
Then I realize that I might need an upgraded driver for my SATA card. BOOYAH!!! Thats the problem (temporarily). Now I use the Verbatim DVD+R DL disk (booktyped as DVD-ROM) which I burnt Enable0800.iso using clone CD. Loads into windows fine but when I try a couple programs: Schtrom says No Xbox 360 drive found!. Xbox Backup Creator will not let me extract the files (the options in the read tab are ghosted out). DVD Info Pro is confusing the bejesus out of me.
Im sure Ive left some things out. Im pretty sure Ive covered all the bases though. Ive been reading these forums like mad. Video cable is plugged in. When I put the 0800 disk in it spins for about 5 seconds before it stops. Any other non-360 disk will sit and spin for a while, which makes me think the enable0800 disk is working right, but its also where I think I might be wrong.
I know this is a lot to go through since I only own 4 Xbox 360 games, but I have a case of OCD and my mind keeps telling me that I need to do this (plus Im a big computer nerd and love doing things like this). Any help is greatly appreciated. Ive been working on this for the last 8 hours and I need sleep.
Thanks,
Scott
Post by: scottweiland on December 21, 2006, 02:08:00 PM
Been messing with it all day again. Still can't get in to flash the drive and windows will not recognize the drive. I'm guessing the Enable0800.iso must have been bad or something. I downloaded another copy of enable0800.iso from a different source. Again burned with Clone CD 5.2.9.1 booktype DVD-ROM using the LiteOn Bit Setting Utility 1.3.5. I still cannot read or write to my XBOX's firmware, or get it to recgonize in windows.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Scott
Post by: scottweiland on December 22, 2006, 01:16:00 AM
I have tried various tricks and such from the forum, nothing will work. Still can't flash or read firmware & windows will not recognize the drive. Very frustrating.
Also, an interesting point to make. The 360 will not play in HDTV mode on my HD monitor, but will play on regular TV setting on that same monitor. However; the 360 will not play on my regular TV with the regular TV mode. I'm lost...
Again, any help (and I mean ANY) will be greatly appreciated. I keep doing the same things over and over hoping they will work. I'd love to try something else.
Thanks,
Scott
Post by: scottweiland on December 22, 2006, 01:49:00 AM
QUOTE(scottweiland @ Dec 21 2006, 02:15 AM) 
Heres what I have:
Lite-On DVDRW SHW-160965 DVD Burner
The burner is not the SHW-160965, its the SHW-16096S
the last character is an S not a 5. I couldn't edit my post so I thought I'd let you all know if it is of any help.
Post by: scottweiland on December 22, 2006, 10:00:00 AM
QUOTE(bnz897 @ Dec 22 2006, 03:09 AM)
Hello Scott
I dont know the answer to your problem, but you would stand more chance of a reply, if you were to ask in a different section of the site. Probably under "Technical DVD-ROM and Modified DVD Firmware Forum"
Thanks! I have started a new post there.