uh.. what you are doing there is just asking for a broken via.

this ONLY works if you have a fat32 partition, though.. dos can't access ntfs.

hotswap won't work since the drive no longer reports itself as a device to windows.
as usual, the only option is to flash externally.

if you suck at soldering, don't even think about using the top d0 point.

eh.. TVs usually use much larger components.

no support for warez, for f***s sake.

it's definitely not by the guys who posted the screenshots before, and avalaunch says "no link", which means there's no network connection established.. yet live supposedly works?

cause the drive will not allow any access with a bad firmware, and with the firmware being bad, it can't execute the flashing code in the first place. that's the very reason why flashing the entire firmware will also brick the drive, the flasher code will crash during it.

I suggest hooking it up directly to the 12V line of the PSU. if you draw too much power on the fan connector and the controller fries, you got a problem.

fake.

there's a thread on how to transfer the key from samsung to hitachi, the same applies to hitachi to hitachi, have a look there for explanations and the proper commands.

neither, they will send it to MS.

that code means absolutely nothing.

you desolder the firmware chip, buy a programmer, flash it and solder it back in.

no.
you're too lazy to read.

flash recovery ONLY works with samsung drives. a bad flash on hitachi can only be fixed by desoldering.

no, we don't. site links like that will be deleted.

not unless you happen to have the mode b code and application on that livecd too.

the 360 disk format demands that the layer break is always at that sector.
if it's not, the data partition is not where the 360 expects it to be, so it can't read the files.

if it's dvd +r only, then it 99% is not DL.. DL didn't exist back when there were +r-only and -r-only burners around.