I've just tried flashing my 360 I got the orig.bin off the xbox nps turned it off then back on to write the new firmware and the xbox turned straight back off again bricking the drive. Can't write anything to it and it shows up as E65 error with the lower red light lit. I have the drive key etc if that helps.
Bricked MS28
- Thread starter mckennab
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yeah ive got a via chipset and I know how to do badflash method. Just seems what ever i do it wont flash. The drive also wont eject etc.
OK, I've seen lots of posts in various topics about people with apparently dead drives. I had exactly the same problem after my floppy decided to give up the ghost mid-flash and the drive Borked. Various solutions were offered by the group, none of which worked, so I was left with the task of finding another drive to hotswap with (Yeah, right!) or find my own solution. This is what I found worked for me. (Twice, as I tested again by borking it a 2nd time) You'll need a Bootable Floppy with MTKFLASH and your firmware. (we'll call this your original.bin) Your Borked DVD drive attached to SATA 1 on your motherboard. Boot from Floppy and get to a Dos prompt. Type in "MTKFLASH W /SATA /M original.bin You should get a response from the system with a list of possible sata ports to flash to. (For arguments sake this is SATA 1 and SATA2 in this tutorial) Turn off the power to the DVD drive wait a second and turn it back on again. Now hit 1 on the keyboard to start the flash. (in response to the Sata 1 port on the screen) OK, now it will start flashing or sits waiting at "Port: d800, Master/Slave: a0" If it is waiting for more than a few seconds hit escape twice to stop the attempt and power off the drive again and keep trying the last part again. It will work after a few attempts. This is what I have figured out so far and why this works. MTKFLASH is looking for a response code 70 from the drive to start flashing. Whilst the hitachi drives have a distinct recovery mode the samsungs show a code 70 JUST after power on. I'm assuming this is a small recovery window that we can use. The MTKFLASH software doesn't really care what device is on the SATA bus at the beginning, as long as it can detect something. Hence is people put a hot swap drive or hard drive on the sata bus, the software says "Ahh, SATA 1 has a device on there" and gives to the option to flash that port. Only when you press 1 on the keyboard to start flashing does it try to detect what KIND of device it is and waits for the required 70 code to start flashing. So in summary .. Get MTKFLASH working so it detects a device on your Sata bus (Either the DVD drive or a hard drive) Then start the flashing procedure JUST AFTER the dvd is given power, after a couple of attempts it should catch the Code 70 and start flashing. Hope this helps.
Seems like i cannot get it to work. The drive is completely dead by the way, no spinning or eject. I think the via card is detecting it but no luck with ur method 
Ill try again tomorrow getting late and i gotta be up early. Cheers for help anyway !
Ill try again tomorrow getting late and i gotta be up early. Cheers for help anyway !bump! the via card knows the drive is there although it looks like there is no power going to the drive. I keep getting status 80 should be 70 when im trying to badflash it - no matter how early or late i turn it off and then back on.
the via card knows the drive is there although it looks like there is no power going to the drive. I keep getting status 80 should be 70 when im trying to badflash it - no matter how early or late i turn it off and then back on.