you wont need to be able to dump ot yourself, rip the game using current 0800 to get ssv2 dump, then run it through abgx to patch the ap2.5 data in.

how about leaving it to the experts instead of raising your post count with absolute nonsense?

or if you must post, please give out some useful information like manufacturing date etc so we can work out how to get one to team x/c4e etc

did you really think an app created specifically for the liteon drives would work on a hitachi drive?

apples and oranges my friend.

can i ask why in gods name are you hotswapping games?

are you stuck in 2005?

hotswapping 360 games is the oldest, and worst method of backing up games there is.

Invest in a spare native xbox 360 DVDROM and flash it with the 0800 fw

then use it to rip your games and finally run them through abgx to add ssv3 (ssv2+ap2.5) where applicable.

and to answer your question even though its dumb

the bezel will snap out, the tab keeping it on will pop out with a bit of gentle force.

then the top case will come off.

but dont f*** a perfectly good drive up for an ancient method of ripping games which is $#!te anyway.

come join us in 2010!!

the first place to look is here:

"UK copyright, design and patents act of 1988"

the older law on copyright which was wrote in 1988, when copying games wasnt mainstream. this law has been amended several times in the last 20 years as technology has advanced.

basically it is illegal to circumvent a copyright protection system (like CSS on DVD's), but the question is, when exactly is the copyright system bypassed on an xbox 360 console? (google bunnies comments on the recent legal case in the US for the best opinion on this subject)

is it when the drive is flashed or chip installed?

or is it when the disc is ripped and burnt to a disc?

the flashing of the drive in itself does not allow you to play backups, unless the discs are ripped and prepared in a certain way. so in that case, if you were simply flashing the drives/installing chips then you were not technically doing anything wrong in that train of thought, right?

if you were selling games too then you are indeed f***ed lol

IMHO it should be 100% legal to back up your own property.

but the problem lies in that modding the console only leaves moral choice as to whether a person backs up their own property, or hit torrents and leech every game on the supermarket shelves for free.

pretty soon i think we will have our own version of DMCA, and modchips will become illegal, as well as all flashing etc.

i felt some pity for you until i read that you run several sites offering these services, i mean, in all honesty, if you were whoring your services all over the internet, did you not expect this sort of $#!t to land at your door? why are you so surprised and annoyed?

i mean think of it this way, if you had a friend who robbed houses, and you drive him around whilst he was out robbing, would you be as guilty of the thefts as he is, even though all you did was give your friend a lift?

think about it. you and I know the only reason 99% of people get the consoles flashed is for cheap games. the police know it. and they will not care about the rights of a small minority of people wo do it legitimately stop them from going after the big fish who make serious money out of copyright infringement, like you.

for your original question on the law and any changes,

in 2008 Neil Stanley Higgs of Speedwell Road, Speedwell, Bristol was found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of 26 offences under a 2003 amendment to the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act for supply and installation of xbox 1 modchips.

he lost his first trial and was found guilty by all jury members.

he then appealed it and got off, and this started the misguided idea that it was ok in the eyes of the law to mod consoles. It isnt trust me.

then in late 2009 another case went to trial and lost

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/modchip_ruling/

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2009/2293.html

read the links above and then think about whether or not they have a case, i think they do.

anyone caught doing it at home for their own use will get a slap on the wrist and a caution at best.

you were obviously making a tidy profit off it, hence why someone took notice.

expect a big fine and possibly a sentence depending on any other convictions you may have, and how many consoles and fw files they find on your computer.

how about you wait like the rest of us for the native fw for that particular drive?

make a folder on your hdd called games

choose that directory when ripping the games (usb:\Games\)

set the directory in the settings of FSD so it scans it for any new games

simples!!

0001 is a horrible error to try and fix, ive never ever managed to get one working

ive caused it by overheating the GPU and squishing out all the solder balls between the GPU and mobo in a huge blob of solder.

game over really lol

the screws will be marked as well as the drive body to show where the screws should be to have perfect alignment

lmao breaks my heart to think of all those poor consoles getting raped by impatient kiddies.....

try building a NAND image with fbbuild instead of the one click apps, following the readme also remembering to extract and include all of the security files etc

another system?

open any backup containing your dvdkey as source, then spoof to latest LT+

simples!!

the lasers are the same between liteon and Benq - HOP141

the laser you replaced may well be worn also

they are pretty cheap to buy, why not get a new one and try it in to see if there is an improvement

graphical glitches do happen when the system is about to RROD, but its more like crazy colours or checkerboard squares etc

no-one knows yet wait and see

The tool didnt screw the hard drive up - you did.

and the failsafe you mention is backing up your HDSS.bin and all data on the drive before you attempt to f*** with it.

also its best to read and learn about the complexities of a hack before you attempt it, and also what it is exactly you are attempting before firing in the dark.

you could have restored the fatx filesystem by formatting the drive in the 360, but you would have lost all your data anyway possibly.

formatting it to FAT32 overwrote the hdss.bin, making the drive unusable in an xbox 360 console.

HDDHackr as stated only writes an HDSS.bin to a WD drive, not the official ones.

i did read once about someone attempting to hex edit the sector into the drive, not sure if it worked but you could try it.

I personally have used the UNDO.bin from a donor drive to restore a WD drive to stock and it worked, so i imaging if you were to find an HDSS.bin for a similar drive, it could work provided you could somehow restore the HDSS.bin to the drive.

but hey we all have to learn, some choose to do it the hard way.....

very true, but another way to set it is when you run the default.xex of dashlaunch and choose to set the settings, you are prompted to set the patch with a yes/no input

the latest dashlaunch has the ping patch built in, no need to do anything to the fbuild process

just install the latest dashlaunch after you flash the freeboot image.

yes the ap2.5 protection will still be in place on new dashboard, ban or not.

patching the wave will not stop the ap2.5 checks either, dont listen to dumb suggestions.

you will need LT plus to boot the ap2.5 games.

yes when you update to the newer dashboard, the ban on hdd installs is lifted again after 9199

black screen on boot is a symptom of a dying laser also before you jump to more complicated solutions....

as he has LT+ flashed as his first post said, the ap2.5 isnt an issue.