hitachi 79fl

[bluelandcruiser]

hi is there any other way such as dos to upgrade an hitachi 78/79 drive to 1.51 as jungleflasher froze on my 2 pcs with it on lite on drives and had to finish in dos. not sure if this jungleflasher problem is specific to liteon or will it likley do the same with the hitachi drives which i belieive are bricked if bad flashed so a bit dodgier when doing them thanx

[CoFree]

jungle is just buggy at this time

[dalecheesy]

I tend to use toolbox for Hitachi's but it's down to personal preference. As cofree said jungle seems too buggy at the min but some people swear by it.

[dannyg1985]

i just used toolbox on my friends hitachi yesterday and upgraded the firmware to 1.51 - was fairly easy to do..

[crowman]

hi mate
if jf is too bugy for you, you can use this as a quick guide to do the reflash,
using toolbox 4.8 i have taken notes from other tutorials (textbook's and podger's)thanks



FOR A HITACHI 79
PUT FLASHED DRIVE INTO MODE B TO DO THIS LEAVE THE TRAY OPEN THEN TURN DRIVE ON OR USE THE SLAX DISC

ONCE IN MODE B FOR 79
AND RECOGNISED IN WINDOWS AND EJECTED TRAY THROUGH WINDOWS CHECK DRIVE LETTER AND REMEMBER IT

Insert the 79 Unlock Audio CD into your Hitachi 79 DVD drive (that should already be detected in Windows).
Windows will probably display an Autorun window asking what you want to do with the disc you just inserted.

You should select to Play the Audio CD using Windows Media Player. Let the track play completely, it is about 3 seconds long. After it has finished, hit play again to start playing it again, then immediately hit pause. Hit eject on the Xbox 360 to remove the 79 Unlock Audio CD

RUN THE OPEN COMMAND HERE ON THE 79 UNLOCK FOLDER
From the command prompt, in the 79 Unlock directory, you need to type 79unlock X and hit enter. Where X is the Hitachi drive letter as recognized in Windows.

Depending on your SATA chipset, you may get a done! reply or an error. This means the drive is unlocked and can now be flashed just like a Hitachi 78 using 360 Firmware Toolbox.

Insert an original retail game or movie DVD into the Hitachi drive AND KEEP THE TRAY CLOSED, 3 PRESSES OF THE EJECT BUTTON TO KEEP CLOSED
OPEN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
CLICK TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE DRIVE IS LISTED IN TOP DROP DOWN BOX (MINE IS D)
SELECT RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
SAVE AS (ORIGINAL) IN A FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP
CLICK YES TO OPEN E.C.T
THEN COPY DRIVE KEY DISPLAYED IN TOOLBOX
ALSO MAKE NOTE OF "Key information: (@[address])"
E.G (FOR HITACHI 78) 78-4b00 78-4c30 78-4d20 78-4e10
OR (FOR HITACHI 79) 79-4b00 79-4e10
THEN OPEN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARES THAT CORISPONDS TO YOUR "Key information: (@[address])"
THEY ARE IN THE FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8 FOLDER
IN A FOLDER CALLED orig_fw
ONCE OPENED PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE FIRMWARE YOU JUST LOADED
AND CLICK SAVE KEY
NOW CLICK ONTO TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE FLASH (GDR ONLY)
THEN ONTO DIFERENTIAL FLASH (RESTORE)
HIT READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES
THEN START FLASHING
DONE RESTORING





DONE RESTORING NOW ONTO REFLASHIN
DUMP THE DRIVE TO CHECK ITS RESTORED BACK TO ORIGINAL
TO DO THIS IN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
TOOLS DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
AND SAVE TO FOLDER ON DESKTOP AND NAME IT ORIGINAL
OPEN THIS IN TOOLBOX AND CHECK TO SEE IF ITS RESTORED (SHOULDNY SAY IXTREME AFTER TYPE OF FIRMWARE)
COPY THE KEY OUT OF THE DUMP ALSO (NOT REALY NEEDED AS IT WILL ASK YOU TO KEEP KEY ON DRIVE LATER)

THEN OPEN YOUR IXTREME 1.51 FIRMWARE IN TOOLBOX
MAKING SURE TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT ONE THAT MATCHES
YOUR "Key information: (@[address])" SAME AS THE ONE YOU USED TO DO THE RESTORE EARLYER
THEN PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE KEY BOX AND CLICK SAVE KEY
THEN CLICK TOOLS – DIRECT DRIVE FLASH PATCH
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
CLICK READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES (YES TO KEEP KEYS ON DRIVE)
START FLASHING
REDUMP TO CHECK ITS FLASHED IXTREME 1.51 IF YOU WISH
FINNISHED

[bluelandcruiser]

thnx very much for the detailed explanation just what i was after and i assume its the same for the earlier hitachi drives also apart from maybe the raw and classic dump bit

[dalecheesy]

For the earlier Hitachi versions prior to 78 use the RESTORE.BAT file that was included on those versions with toolbox

[crowman]

thnx very much for the detailed explanation just what i was after and i assume its the same for the earlier hitachi drives also apart from maybe the raw and classic dump bit

yes mate just use classic dump or like dalecheesy said, you can use the restore that comes with the 1.4 hitachi firmware's
then use toolbox to flash