I'm pretty new to the scene but have recently successfully replaced and flashed a phat benq from stock to LT (for my brother) and flashed a liteon phat from stock to LT (for my son).
So I decided to buy another cheap xbox of ebay which has a faulty drive (for myself). I found out it had a Hitachi 47 drive prior to buying it and thought, great! I'll be able to play XGD3 games safely on the current LT+2.0.
I got it home and powered on the xbox and immediately the power button light was constantly flashing and the drive wouldn't eject, no problem I thought as I knew it needed a new drive, I just need to read the keys and replace the drive.
I plugged the drive into my ck3i and ran through the Hitachi tutorial on jungleflasher but the drive still won't eject using the ck3i so causes a problem when trying to put the drive into mode-b following the instructions.
I read elsewhere that you can choose mode-b on the ck3i and then set mode-b in Jungleflasher, therefore no need to eject the drive (I hoped). No luck there, still wouldn't detect it. So I opened up the drive and this is what I found...
It looks to me as though some of the small chips are burned out and when I look on the casing there are brown marks on it so clearly it's had it. What can I do to retrive the keys off the drive, please help.
EDIT: I've been reading about key extraction via the TSOP on bricked drives, does anyone provide this service. Basically I just need to send the pcb board off to someone with the skills and all I want is the unique key from it. I don't even care about receiving the old pcb back.
So I decided to buy another cheap xbox of ebay which has a faulty drive (for myself). I found out it had a Hitachi 47 drive prior to buying it and thought, great! I'll be able to play XGD3 games safely on the current LT+2.0.
I got it home and powered on the xbox and immediately the power button light was constantly flashing and the drive wouldn't eject, no problem I thought as I knew it needed a new drive, I just need to read the keys and replace the drive.
I plugged the drive into my ck3i and ran through the Hitachi tutorial on jungleflasher but the drive still won't eject using the ck3i so causes a problem when trying to put the drive into mode-b following the instructions.
I read elsewhere that you can choose mode-b on the ck3i and then set mode-b in Jungleflasher, therefore no need to eject the drive (I hoped). No luck there, still wouldn't detect it. So I opened up the drive and this is what I found...
It looks to me as though some of the small chips are burned out and when I look on the casing there are brown marks on it so clearly it's had it. What can I do to retrive the keys off the drive, please help.
EDIT: I've been reading about key extraction via the TSOP on bricked drives, does anyone provide this service. Basically I just need to send the pcb board off to someone with the skills and all I want is the unique key from it. I don't even care about receiving the old pcb back.
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