that HD may simply not support locking.

how about reading one of the 5 billion postings on bricked hitachis, for f***s sake? you can NOT f***ing recover it.

no.
you hook up the drive to the PC via SATA or sata->USB adapter, no other way. ftp is impossible, where exactly would the 360 get an ftp server from?

first of all, you don't have 100 originals. second, DL is your only option. third, ask about pirated games again and you are gone for good.

considering the search should've returned about 20 postings all saying it will brick your drive, don't you think that's confirmation enough?

it lowers the chance of bricking the drive, like about 5000 people on here did by now.

sure. and then they take up space and don't do anything cause the dashboard doesn't support playing them off HD.

*sigh*
no.
just f***ing no.

then you most likely didn't hexedit it right. you couldn't possibly flash it with 0800 firmware since you can't flash at all right now, there's no "0800" mode.

there's about a thousand reasons why a fuse can pop, and the entire purpose of it popping is to prevent damage to the PSU, so replacing it will fix it.
and fuses don't just pop when you open a system.

there are no drivers involved AT ALL, since you are in dos. if you aren't in dos, you didn't read the instructions.

how many times will people ask these questions? YES, MS can. if you don't want to get banned, don't modify your 360. end of story.

wtf for? the samsung can be flashed from a PC, even with a f***ed bios.

you should be able to use any fuse with the same values, it doesn't have to be the exact same shape.

you can possibly get away with using desoldering wick or melting a big blob of solder to all pins on one side, keeping it liquid, lifting the chip slightly, then removing the solder blob with a solder sucker. you just have to clean up all contacts afterwards.

the hardware works on all systems.

if you have ever been online with that xbox, you will be banned if you go online with a new HD.

yeah. and it doesn't make it any faster cause the xbox 1 only supports ATA33 in the first place.

oh for f***s sake.. you also believe in the easter bunny, right?

as said about a million times by now, the drive is f***ed and you'll have to reprogram the desoldered flashchip externally.