Other way for flashing Hitachi.

[shlomes]

Is ther a dos methode to flash the Hitachi 47 or only jungleflasher 1.51??

[dalecheesy]

You could use Firmware Toolbox, available in the download section but it runs through windows.

[CoFree]

no dos flash for the hit dvd drives
that i know of

[HAZ3]

You could use Firmware Toolbox, available in the download section but it runs through windows.

supposedly this doesn't work though or so i've heard. i have yet to see any tutorial on this but i have read somewhere that it supposedly does. not confirmed yet. best is to use jf although i don't dig it but have no choice.

[215XboxMods]

In my opinion I use FW Tool Box with the VIA 5.30Drivers Installed it seems to run a lot smoother than JungleFlasher for me. If you mess up a hitachi its not like a benq samsung lon you will need a new logic board most likely. I still use jungle flasher to make the firmware.

Already on iXtreme FW and my drive is a Hitachi 0078 so let's start by restoring the drive to Stock Firmware.


1) Put your flashed xbox drive into Mode B. You can get into Mode B a lot of different ways but if your already on hacked firmware the easiest method is to:

"Open the xbox 360 disc tray and make sure this is no disc in the tray. Leave the tray open and unplug the 360's power supply from your wall. Then plug the power supply back in and power up the 360. Your drive should now be in Mode B.

How to tell if it's in Mode B? It should take two presses of the eject button to either open or close the DVD tray."

2) Once your in Mode B and your drive shows up in windows, find the drive letter and remember it.

3) Insert a legitimate DVD Movie or Game Disc and close the tray.

4) Open Firmware Toolbox 4.8, Click "Tools" -> Direct Drive Dump (GDR ONLY)

5) Make sure your 360's drive is listed in the top drop down box. Make sure the DVD Drive letter matches the Drive Letter you wrote down during step 2.

6) Select "Raw Dump Firmware As" -> Save as (ORIGINAL) in a folder on your Desktop.

7) Once its done dumping the firmware, its going to ask you if you want to open the firmware/file, Click Yes.

8) Copy the DVD Drive key displayed in the "Key" text box and also save a copy of your key into the folder on your desktop. You also need to write down what your Key address is "Key information: (@[address])". For example, Mine is 4c30 but yours could be one of the following:

78-4b00
78-4c30
78-4d20
78-4e10

9) Then open the original firmware that corresponds to your Key Information Address "(@[address])" (78-4b00, 78-4c30, 78-4d20 or 78-4210)

File Names for each of the key address are:
orig78-4b00.bin
orig78-4c30.bin
orig78-4d20.bin
orig78-4e10.bin

You must choose the right key address or else you will brick your drive!

10) Once you have chosen the right firmware for your drive, paste your key into the Key text box field, and click "Save Key".

11) Once you have saved the key, click on Tools -> Direct Drive Flash (GDR ONLY) -> DIFFERENTIAL FLASH (RESTORE)

12) Click "Read and Detect Differences"

13) Click "Start Flashing"



You have now restored your drive to stock firmware. To check if it restored back to normal, follow the steps below.

1) Open Firmware Toolbox 4.8, Click "Tools" -> Direct Drive Dump (GDR ONLY)

2) Make sure your 360's drive is listed in the top drop down box.

3) Select "Raw Dump Firmware As" -> Save as (ORIGINALRESTORED) in a folder on your Desktop.

4) Once its done dumping the firmware, its going to ask you if you want to open the firmware/file, Click Yes.

5) Open the firmware "ORIGINALRESTORED" in Firmware Toolbox 4.8. If you want, you can copy the key from the text box field but it's not needed as it will as you if you want to keep the key on the drive.


Now that you have checked to see if the drive has been flashed to stock firmware, follow the steps below to flash the drive to iXtreme 1.51.


1) Open your iXtreme 1.51 firmware in Firmware Toolbox 4.8. Make sure its the right firmware and that the key address' match.

Ex. The correct firmware for my drive "ix151-78-4c30.bin"
The firmware I selected "ix151-78-4e10.bin"
WRONG!!!!!

Ex. The correct firmware for my drive "ix151-78-4c30.bin"
The firmware I selected "ix151-78-4c30.bin"
RIGHT!!!!!

2) Then open your iXtreme 1.51 firmware in Firmware Toolbox 4.8.

3) Paste your DVD Drive key into the Key text box field and click "Save Key"

4) Then Click Tools -> Direct Drive Flash Patch

5) Make sure your 360's drive is listed in the top drop down box.

6) Click "Read and Detect Differences". It will ask you if you want to keep the key on the drive, Click Yes

7) Click "Start Flashing"


You have now flashed your Hitachi 0078 to iXtreme 1.51 firmware. If you want to double check that the flashing process worked, please read below.


1) Open Firmware Toolbox 4.8, Click "Tools" -> Direct Drive Dump (GDR ONLY)

2) Make sure your 360's drive is listed in the top drop down box.

3) Select "Raw Dump Firmware As" -> Save as (TEST) in a folder on your Desktop.

4) Once its done dumping the firmware, its going to ask you if you want to open the firmware/file, Click Yes.

5) Open the firmware "TEST" in Firmware Toolbox 4.8. If your drive key matches the key you saved in a file on your desktop in this tutorial and in the ROM Version it says "[iXtreme:1.51:v78-12x]" then your drive is fully flashed and working! Congrats!

[HAZ3]

i would agree with the above reply however that is too long. if you follow one of cofree's og tutorials on flahsing the hitachi drives it gives a simple run down on how to dump the firmware. what i would do is follow this tutorial after dumping the key w/cofree's tutorial then flash to 1.51 w/firmware toolbox via this method. would make it much easier. now if u were like me & trying to spoof the drive, I'd follow both the aforementioned & sadalius tutorial on spoofing then use the iprep 9 tutorial. lots of steps but i'm sure it would work. dont see why not.

[215XboxMods]

This only takes me at most 1min to do.When you do it your first time will take a little longer but some of those steps are for complete noobs, say someone never used FWToolbox ect.. 1.I open FWToolbox, 2. Dump (Raw Dump) 3.Copy Original.bin (or whatever you name it) 4.Paste in Jungle flasher/Firmware 5.Open original.bin in source,open custom firmware in Target , click spoof sourse to target, Save - Hit_CFW.bin 6.File/Open in FWToolbox select Hit_CFW.bin 7. Read and detect differences , Flash

**Only with Hitachi 79/78 you need key address **-4b00 **-4c30 **-4d20 **-4e10 **=78/79 in FWToolbox it says it on the right towards the bottom. Thats your key address when you select your Target (Custom) Frimware make sure you pick the one with corresponding firmware Ex:original 78-4c30 pick ix1.5178-4c30

Restore a Hitachi any time you start with a flashed drive

Make sure you when you load the firmware and read and detect differences make sure theres not a LOT of differences in the new firmware and original. (I forget exatly how many sectors you flash but around 8 or less there should be some white under the sectors your flashing if you can scroll through the sector thats to many

I leave FWToolbox open the whole time and save to JF Firmware directory even quicker

My computer would freeze when I did not have VIA 5.30c Drivers Installed

Hitachi is flashed different than all the rest if you mess up you most likely need a new logic board

[shlomes]

Thank you guys for your massive response. Robinhoods is by far the best community.

That’s how I did it and what happened:

It turned out that the drive, a Hitachi 47, was flashed in a shop. The original drive was a Benq which they got the key from by soldering a switch to the drives board and ripping the switch off after they were ready leaving the Benq to be a dead peace of junk. Now they took the Hitachi 47 and flashed it with a 46 firmware witch they spoofed as a Benq. Needless to say my friend didn’t get any orig.bin with that great job.

This is what I did:

I got the drive in mode b old style with the slax cd and than got the firmware with the fw toolbox. Didn’t notice thou that the firmware said 46 cause on the drive was written 47 (and who might thought of this) after endless try’s with Jungleflasher to spoof the serial into a 47 fw it hit me and I changed to 46. Still had trouble to flash it back but in the end I used the manual method to flash in the serial and to spoof it as a Benq. And after some hours of work TATA it worked just fine.

CONCLUSION: DO IT YOURSELF AND DON’T GIVE IT TO SHOPS WHERE YOU JUST GET RIPPED OFF

[dalecheesy]

Sweet, glad you got it sorted mate. Good job.

[HAZ3]

Thank you guys for your massive response. Robinhoods is by far the best community.

That’s how I did it and what happened:

It turned out that the drive, a Hitachi 47, was flashed in a shop. The original drive was a Benq which they got the key from by soldering a switch to the drives board and ripping the switch off after they were ready leaving the Benq to be a dead peace of junk. Now they took the Hitachi 47 and flashed it with a 46 firmware witch they spoofed as a Benq. Needless to say my friend didn’t get any orig.bin with that great job.

This is what I did:

I got the drive in mode b old style with the slax cd and than got the firmware with the fw toolbox. Didn’t notice thou that the firmware said 46 cause on the drive was written 47 (and who might thought of this) after endless try’s with Jungleflasher to spoof the serial into a 47 fw it hit me and I changed to 46. Still had trouble to flash it back but in the end I used the manual method to flash in the serial and to spoof it as a Benq. And after some hours of work TATA it worked just fine.

CONCLUSION: DO IT YOURSELF AND DON’T GIVE IT TO SHOPS WHERE YOU JUST GET RIPPED OFF

so i take you Didn't use firmware toolbox from the sounds of it but rather, jungleflasher.

[shlomes]

so i take you Didn't use firmware toolbox from the sounds of it but rather, jungleflasher.

i actualy used both. toolbox to get orig.bin and jungle to flash back. the flashing is just more convinient with jungle and you have a lot of manual options. i also used the slax cd to get into mode b and a game disc with toolbox to get the orig.bin.