Hitachi 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79 - Jungle Flasher Tutorial

[Teajunkie]

Flashing a hitachi 79


NOTE: YOU CAN USE THE XECUTER X360USB INSTEAD OF A SATA CARD ON THE 46,47,58 & 59 Hitachi.

YOU CANNOT USE USB ON THE 78 and 79 Hitachi - YOU HAVE TO USE A SATA CARD !

Connecting your drive:

- Connect your drive to your pc using a sata cable.
- Power your drive on using your CK3 or xbox.
- Open jungleflasher
- Select the hitachi tab and insert your 79 unlock cd.
- Wait for windows to open media player (or default media player) and close it.
- Select your drives sata port
- Now click 79 unlock (a brief description will show command sent)
- Now click Mode b on jungleflasher (follow prompts)


Your ready to dump and flash Over to the dumping part:

NOTE: Turn off any antivirus programs etc and any open windows or you could brick your drive!

- You see your drive has been auto selected 79.
- Click dump drive and save the file as HITOFW.BIN
Save a 2nd copy of this firmware to another drive or cd rom.
- Now click on flash ixtreme and it should report all stable so go ahead and click OK!

Thats it!
Wasnt that easy?

If your drive has been flashed before you will need to click "restore" before you flash the new ixtreme.

79unlock.zip
JungleFlasher v0.1.66 Beta.zip

http://www.4shared.com/file/123324335/9a64063f/maximus_reader.html

 

[Matt321]

Re: Flashing a 79

Nice guide TJ!


But why should u click "Restore" when its already flashed ?


I thought u used that to Restore the original fw.. ?

 

[Teajunkie]

Flashing a 78

Flashing a hitachi 78

Connecting your drive:

- Connect your drive to your pc using a sata cable.
- Power your drive on using your CK3 or xbox.
- Select your sata port that your drive is connect to.
- Open jungleflasher
- Select the hitachi tab.
- Now click Mode b on jungleflasher (follow prompts)


Your ready to dump and flash Over to the dumping part:
NOTE: Turn off any antivirus programs etc and any open windows or you could brick your drive!

- You see your drive has been auto selected 78.
- Click dump drive and save the file as HITOFW.BIN
Save a 2nd copy of this firmware to another drive or cd rom.
- Now click on flash ixtreme and it should report all stable so go ahead and click OK!

Thats it!
Wasnt that easy?

If your drive has been flashed before you will need to click "restore" before you flash the new ixtreme.

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

It is the same procedure for all other hitachi's the only one that's different is the 79 as this requires the 79 unlock cd.

So follow the guide for the hitachi 78 and you cant go wrong!
I will add some images later to make it easier to follow.

But why should u click "Restore" when its already flashed ?
I thought u used that to Restore the original fw.. ?

If you try to flash a hitachi that has been flashed with ixtreme you get two options:
1 - A brick
2 - An error
So make sure you return the drive to stock before you reflash it.

If you are unsure if you have stock firmware.
After you dump the drive click back to the firmware tool 32 tab, and under your firmware it will state firmware revision e.g. stock or ixtreme.

 

[thedemon13666]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Hi

Im trying to flash my hitachi 0079fl.

My motherboard is an asus k8n with nforce4 chipset.

I have the hitachi connected by sata into my pc, ive been trying to use xtractor reader to find the drive, but it keeps saying no drives are found...

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Have you ....
connected drive to sata port and powered on drive
Then scan for xbox drives?

If yes then you need a Via 6421a PCI sata card.

 

[thedemon13666]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Yeh my board has like 4 sata ports, so I connected it to one of them.

Do I need to enable sata or anything on my board?

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

It should be already unless you have disabled it?

How are you powering your drive?

 

[thedemon13666]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

I have the xbox turned on from the mains as you normally would.

 

[Ricey155]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

good info for all as usual

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

I have the xbox turned on from the mains as you normally would.

Then it must be a sata issue!

If you have another pc you could try it on then try that first.
Otherwise grab yourself a via6421a card.

 

[thedemon13666]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

kk ive just gone and ordered the sata card.

Thanks for the help

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

No problem man let us know when you get it.
We are always here to help.

Although it's a bit quiet at the moment.

 

[skidmcmarx]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

I have a messed up hitachi 46 and want to flash its key to a perfectly working hitachi 47. Can someone give me a guidline about doing it.

Im not new to flashing, ive been doing it for a while now. Just never spoofed a drive as another before. I've searched around and can only see guides on flashin hiatchi to other drives(samsung, benQ). Is the same method used for what im looking to do?

 

[Teajunkie]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Have you got the key.bin from the original? or the hitofw.bin.

If you only have hitofw.bin.

- open jungle flasher
- open your hitofw.bin as source and click save key
- save this key.bin to a folder.
- connect your new hitachi and click flash key sector it will dump the drive info and ask for the key.bin locate the saved key.bin and click flash.

Thats your key flashed.

 

[skidmcmarx]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Damn i wish id waited for you to write back. Impatiance can get the better of me. I have made a mess following another tutorial i think. I currently have they key from the old on the new hitachi. My 360 is showing a single red light in the lower right quarter so i must have gone wrong somewhere, Id like to go back to the begining and try again form scratch. I have my old and new drives original firmware. Can i flash them both back to the begining and try again?

 

[skidmcmarx]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

I keep getting this when i try

1 Sector Differences Found
Flash Stability Test
Flashing Sector 9003F000
Dumping Sector 9003F000:....
Read back & compare, complete, Flashing Stable!
Repairing Test Sector.
Flashing Sector 9003F000
Done !
Flashing Sector 90004000
Done !
Write verify test..
Dumping Flash:....
Read back mis-compare, Flash process has errors

 

[skidmcmarx]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Hold on got it back to original . Ill get back tya in a few

 

[skidmcmarx]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Nope. Still getting

nquiry strings identical
Identify strings identical
1 Sector Differences Found
Flash Stability Test
Flashing Sector 9003F000
Dumping Sector 9003F000:....
Read back mis-compare, Restore Aborted

 

[thedemon13666]

Re: Flashing all hitachi's 46, 47, 58, 59, 78, And 79

Hey

Ive bought a SATA card and think ive installed it correctly.

I can now detect the xbox hitachi drive.

However when I try the 79 unlock I get "Ram Execute command failed". When I run mode B, it does go into mode B, however, jungleflasher then freezes OR it says 'no hitachi drives found'.