Ok, after saving a few peoples Xbox's from the RROD issue, a friend asked me if I could fix his son's elite which wasn't reading disks. At the time I thought "simple" so agreed to fix it for him, but now I am beginning to feel a touch over my head. May I point out that I do not wish to load custom firmware to the new drive as I do not wish to be banned from XBL.
The original drive which stopped reading disks is a Liteon DG-16D2s (SW ver.74850C). The One I purchased to replace it with is a Benq VAD6038. I have also purchased the xecuter ck3 connectivity kit pro complete with the probe etc etc.
If I offend anyone or break any site rules by asking stupid questions I apologise in advance, but do I assume that I have to somehow extract the drive info from the liteon drive and then somehow load it into the Benq so that when I put the xbox back together it will think that the Benq drive is still the Liteon and therefore not ban me from xbox live. This is the impression I am getting from looking around, I am just very unsure of what would be the best course of action to take, and if I find the best course of action, how to take it. I am finding this very confusing and if someone could take the time to help me I would be greatly appreciative as I really dont want to have to tell my friend that I couldnt fix his xbox for him.
