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Title: Dvd Drive Swap
Post by: tikyle on December 04, 2006, 10:57:00 AM

Is it possible to swap out DVD drives.  My friend has a Hitachi v78 will another v Hitachi work in his 360?  Just wondering before he goes out looking for a bricked Hitachi drive.

Title: Dvd Drive Swap
Post by: BCfosheezy on December 04, 2006, 11:48:00 AM

QUOTE(tikyle @ Dec 4 2006, 11:28 AM)

Is it possible to swap out DVD drives. My friend has a Hitachi v78 will another v Hitachi work in his 360? Just wondering before he goes out looking for a bricked Hitachi drive.

 

It's not plug and play, but if you have the drive you can do it pretty easily. Just read the tutorials on firmware flashing and you'll know how to do it. Basically you'll need to patch the firmware on the drive with the key from the other drive.

Title: Dvd Drive Swap
Post by: tikyle on December 04, 2006, 11:53:00 AM

But how do you acquire the key from a v78 drive?

Title: Dvd Drive Swap
Post by: BCfosheezy on December 04, 2006, 12:06:00 PM

QUOTE(tikyle @ Dec 4 2006, 12:24 PM)

But how do you acquire the key from a v78 drive?

 

I'm not familiar with that drive. If it's not in the tuts then it must not yet be possible. If you can't get the key you can't swap the drive. It's pretty simple stuff.

Title: Dvd Drive Swap
Post by: tikyle on December 05, 2006, 05:12:00 AM

I read about it in another forum.  Seems like it's exactly how you said but they were saying that b/c you can't read or write from the firmware chip on the v78 the only way to replace the drive would be to extract the chip and put it into a chip reader/programmer, get the key, put that key into an older version of the Hitachi but they said if you're going to do all of that you might as well just flash the v78 chip when you take it out and put it into the programmer and just put the chip back in the drive.