I have an xbox 360 with a mechanically broken "Benq VAD6038", I want to replace that drive with with a working drive from another 360, a "Hitachi GDR-3120L".
I have read on the forums that in order for this to work without getting banned from xbox-live, the new drive must have the same Hardware Drive-ID as the broken-drive. I do not know much about flashing drives so I do not know which tools to use or how.
Here is what I have:
~Mechanically Broken "Benq VAD6038"
~Working "Hitachi GDR-3120L"
~Gigabyte (EP45-UD3L) Motherboard with Intel ICH10 SATA Interface
~Windows 7 64bit and access to other operating systems
~Fairly advanced computer hardware skills
I do NOT have a seperate device for powering the drive, but i could build one should the need arise, maybe there is someway easier though like using another 360 for power?
I need information on which tools I need to use along with guides for extracting the hardware keys and flashing them to the working drive for the two models I have, and while I am at it, I may as well flash the drives with stealthed firmwares for backups.
To make the hitachi look like a benq you have to do what's called spoofing. I'm not too familiar with the hitachi's process for this since those drives can vary between revisions, but the basic process should go something like this: use jungleflasher to put the BENQ drive in vendor mode and read the firmware (assuming you don't have the firmware already). Outro, turn off the xbox. Plug up the hitachi and put it in vendor mode. In the firmware tool tab click "open source firmware" and point to the benq firmware you just dumped. Then click "open target firmware" and point to either stock hitachi firmware (that you can dump or download from xbins), or iXtreme 1.51 (xbins). Click spoof source to target and the drive key will copy over and it will say something like "Hitachi v74 spoofed as VAD6038". Write the firmware and outro. The drive should show up as a BenQ now. Check the jungleflasher tutorial on jungleflasher.net for more details & step by step
And yes, you can use the 360 to power the drive while you connect to your computer with sata
Originally posted by Vlad356: Thank you very much for the info.
Originally posted by w00ly: And yes, you can use the 360 to power the drive while you connect to your computer with sata
How can one be sure of this? I read that the xbox will log when the drive is hooked up by sata with no power and flags you.
I didn't say you wouldn't be flagged I said it could be done. I've heard about the supposed flagging of systems that've been hooked up that way but i've never ran into an issue and i've done many with the system powering the drive
