Ok so after an entire day of fighting with a Hitachi drive I am a tad bit worried that I may have bricked it...
I have done a few liteon drives so was pleased and expected a flawless flashing of the drive once I hooked it up to my PC and booted into bios and there is was, then went on to windows and loaded up jungleflasher...
Drive detected fine and set to Mode B, ran the unlocker as it is a 0079 revision.. Next I dumped the drive and flashed ixtreme. When booting up the xbox I got an E66 so I tried flashing and this time spoofed the drive with a liteon key and inquiry since it had been spoofed in the past by someone else. I then only got around to reading about having to restore the firmware before flashing (but think jungleflasher guided me in the right direction without me even realizing it) well after flashing with ixtreme, adding the previous key and spoofing, I booted the xbox and this time it started up but will not play any xbox discs!
I then decided to retry the flashing until I got it right but now the drive does not even get detected in BIOS! I tried a power cycle and tested the SATA cables but nothing!
I am using in onboard intel SATA device. I have been searching for help for the best part of the day but cannot seem to find any solutions and don't want to accept a bricked drive, is there anything I can do??
Now I jumped into this one head first and know I should have read more about this drive before "playing" with it!
Im not sure if it is the original drive, it is not my drive im trying to help someone else with it. All i know is:
The xbox has a Hitachi GDR-3120L 0079FL and when I connected it the first time it was picking up in jungleflasher as a liteon 16d2s and just got the key from the drive as it is.
I was planning on spoofing it again and just making sure I use the original key that I got the drive with but when I wanted to do that the drive was no longer detected on the PC's BIOS.
Well I got the drive sorted a few days back and thought I might post what I did...
Turns out the drive was detecting in both bios and after some time in windows however it was not being detected as a hitachi, instead windows detected it as "ATA Device" and bios simply stated that it could not see anything connected to my sata.
I then forced the drive to install using standard cd rom drivers in windows, started up Jungleflasher and sent mode B to a few ports until the drive closed automatically. once it did I reverted back to standard firmware and all was good as the drive detected perfectly again, then using the Jungleflasher guide I flashed it to the latest Ixtreme and all is working 100%
