I posted this over at maxconsole but i'm not getting much help... do you guys have any suggestions?
Quote:Well after hours of struggling with my system i finally got it to restore to factory state by using an OLD version of Ixtreme restore (right click, commandpowertoy here etc). For some reason the new Ixtreme doesnt like my drive at all. I had the older firmware right before the 1.4 which allows you to select drive speed... all my backups are verbatim 2.x burned.
But now that i've returned it to its original state, i can't flash over it with new firmwares!
My drive is slowly stopping being able to read burned discs... it can read retail fine, and most burned discs fine... but i have recently noticed that it is trying MUCH harder to read some games, and stuff that streams like Burnout Paradise give me in game pauses where i freeze in the air while things around me continue... so irritating. GTA IV won't even load at all! Only the retail does... so i thought hey maybe i could load 8x firmware and it would help...?
Anyway, after banging my head against the wall trying to restore my drive and finally succeeding, i now cant flash Ixtreme 1.4/v1
It's in ModeB, is recognized in windows... but wont frickin flash! I've tried doing it directly from the Ixtreme firmware itself, and then i tried it in Toolbox.
When i try to open toolbox it tells me that smartsound quicktracks.msi hasnt been installed and i have to cancel out of that installation to get Toolbox to open at all.
Once i'm in i can't RAW dump... its a Hitachi so i have to use the "press 3 times" trick to get the drive to stay shut. Even if i do that Toolbox tells me it cant read from the drive. If i use classic dump that works fine... i can dump the firmware, patch the firmware, but when i go to flash the firmware it gives me a runtime error and immediately freezes and doesnt move and i have to ctrl/alt/dlt to get out of it.
I got sick of trying and put my 360 back together... it still reads retail discs fine but not burned discs. It says to insert a 360 game, not "unplayable disc" like when i was on the older hacked firmware.
Anybody have any ideas? It's driving me mad... i am planning on getting a new 360 soon because i have a new TV on the way and i want HDMI, but i would still like to get this 360 back to reading burned discs even as backup.
I've never had problems flashing Hitachi in the past... but this drive didnt want to restore unless i used an old Ixtreme, and now won't allow the newest 1.4 to flash over it. Blah.
