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hey guys i was flashing my hitatchi drive and windows froze. was updating to 1.51. i left the pc for a few mins but it was locked up. i restarted windows and went to jungle flasher. it wont read my drive. the drive wont eject. i think its bricked. is there anyway of getting windows or dos or any other program to recognise my drive so i can reflash?? like the lite o eras method?? or am i screwed?? lol

Sorry dude, but hitachi's are probably the worst drives to flash... They offer no forgiveness. Im pretty certain your drive is bricked.

Hopefully you dumped it first?

(Also, it more then likely froze in JF due to your via drivers... Do you have any installed, and are they enabled?)

HaGGardSmurf wrote:Sorry dude, but hitachi's are probably the worst drives to flash... They offer no forgiveness. Im pretty certain your drive is bricked.

Hopefully you dumped it first?

(Also, it more then likely froze in JF due to your via drivers... Do you have any installed, and are they enabled?)

Yeah man ive dumped the drive and have the drive key. And yeah i renamed the sys file in system32 and all cause of the freeze issues in jf. was strange ive used the same method before on a few of these drives but i dont no what happend this time!!!

Thats weird, good thing you got the key though, you can see about buying a new drive or see if you can buy a hitachi off ebay that has trouble reading games. Then just take the board out, and swap them.

HaGGardSmurf wrote:Thats weird, good thing you got the key though, you can see about buying a new drive or see if you can buy a hitachi off ebay that has trouble reading games. Then just take the board out, and swap them.

ill prob just go and buy a new xbox 2moro mate! then brick that too lol.

hahaha good luck with your next one, youll probably get a lite-on, and at least they are more forgiving.

HaGGardSmurf wrote:hahaha good luck with your next one, youll probably get a lite-on, and at least they are more forgiving.

hahaha well i didnt end up buying a new 360 2day. i got a new pcb board for it. i was just wondering how easy is it to spoof the board?? like i said i have the original key file thingy from my bricked drive. would u be able to help me out on this mate??

Sure, ill make a video really quickly.

http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r28/ ... ddrive.flv" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There you go, watch that video, before you take off the laser ribbon cable, you should take off the worm motor's cable. Its will give you more room to shift the board so you can remove the glued part of the laser's cable.

Be gentle while applying force to remove the glued part of the cable.

Once you removed the board, installing it, is the exact opposite of what you did, and its quite easy. Then flashing is the same as flashing a brand hitachi. No need to dump it... Just mode b then flash.

I don't want to hi-jack, but HaGGardSmurf, will this work for a Hitachi 0078FK drive that I tried to spoof but bricked?

Yes. When you brick a drive, you have erased the flash chip, if you replace it, you can reflash it.

Its usually easier to just buy another drive rather than track down a new PCB and swap it. (And I guess if your drive isnt the best to start with its better to just buy a new drive.)

OK so I found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/xbox-360-hitachi-pc ... 286.c0.m14

Will it work for the 78fk?

It should, all hitachi's have the same hardware, the only differences is FW.

Sweet gonna scoop a couple up just in case!!

Thanks for the help Haggard

I am glad I found this thread.

I have loads of drives laying around that I have replaced in console's I have quite a few good PCB's for each type of drive.

Thats one of the benefits of xbox mods & repair