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It worked! Thank you for all of your sincere help, Cofree. You are an absolute inspiration that there are truly nice people out there. You gain very little from pouring over all of my ridiculous questions and posts. I don't think I had to wait more than 20 minutes for the NUMEROUS replies you gave. ...

Looks like XP is needed for this little trick.

I can't seem to take my ORIG.bin file and run the flash program in the 12x folder.

Cofree, if I sent you my file, could you fix it and then send it back for me to drop on to the USB device?

I'll be up for a while. Thanks again,

Uzi

Alright sounds good.

I appreciate all your research on this.

You're like the "House" of the modding community. Keep up the great work, we all appreciate it.

I'M GOING TO DO THIS AFTER DINNER, i'LL POST BACK WITH MY RESULTS.

tHANKS AGAIN...

Whoops, sorry about the caps.

-Uzi

You were right.

Same problem.

Is it possible to just restart now, and run the Samtool command? If I'm getting a correct orig.bin, cant I just do these things separately?

Then do a 3rd restart and run iFlash?

I disabled the floppy in device manager, and now it has disappeared from the iprep program.

I'm going to re-do the whole thing.

I'll report back.

Unfortunately I don't have a computer with XP! Im thinking about reverting though...

Yeah thats strange. I dont have a floppy drive attached to my computer, but there is an option to boot from one in iPrep.

Update:

I tried to make a boot USB in iPrep 006 and it gave me the same error.

Do you think this is why its not running Sam Tool?

Hey man, One last thing to add. I tried to re-make the USB device and I forgot to mention this problem. It gets 80% done making it, and then gives me this message: Exception Processing Message 0xc000000a3 parameters etc etc etc... Cancel, Try Again, and Continue. No matter which option I choose, it ...

There was no other SATA Plugged in, but Ill double check. Power should be disconnected too? Is there any other way to do this? I looked at the USB in windows after and I see a 256kb file named ORIG.bin. I opened it up in the checker and it is a unique key that looks valid. I backed it up. But the ha...

This is what it said: C:\>iDump xxxxxxx xxxxx Direactory Already Exists Directroy Already Exists MTKFLASH By Joseph Lin... PLease Wait... Drive Scanned: 1: Xtreme Pri Master Choose One Drive:1 Port: 7000, Master/Slave: a0 Flash Type: "SST(SST39SF020)" Reading...Finished! Datasum, EFAD, OPL...

hey corree, Not sure if you're checking the boards, but I'm right in the middle of this process and need your input. I got the USB device working, booted up, hooked up the xbox and ran idump. Did the 10 sec trick. Now its telling me to reboot but Sam Tool never started running and I'm not back at th...

Sorry to keep bugging you COfree, but I'm still confused. Is there a link that you could send me to that goes over all of this from Step 1 to completion? I'm not sure what to do once Ive actually booted from the USB Flash Drive and loaded the dos program. Also, is this the bad flash method? I though...

Thanks for the quick reply. I have a few other questions though. In Iprep, its not showing the VIA card, you mentioned, but rather this one: VIA RAID Controller - 3249 That is what installed when I put in the VIA PCI card this morning. Is that ok? Remember, Im running on Vista. So once I Prep the US...

Hi Cofree, I'm making a new post for this and taking it out of the Vista thread. My VIA Card came in, the one from TekGems. Great recommendation! I'm about to begin the steps to flash. I have the TS-H943 drive f/w=ms28 In both Textbook and Cofree's tutorials, you guys are using older versions of ipr...

Hey man, Thanks for the PM directing me here. Lot's of good info. I bought the VIA card you reccomended, cheap and fast delivery. I have one last question before I begin. I have Vista, so what is the best method to flash the ms28 drive? Iprep, dosflash, USB bootable or dvd-r bootable? Any info you c...