Replace bad hitachi 78fk with samsung ms25

[tomxyy85]

Hi guys I am all ready up to the point where I have to backup my firmware. The thing is I load any disc the DVD drive just goes to unplayable disc and the unplayable disc fixes dont apply anymore and I was wondering if there was anyway I could dump the firmware without loading dvd or maybe transfer my key card from hitachi to samsung and try load dvd and try back it up? and I did some research for 3 hours and found out about some program called memdump which you dont need dvd in drive but it only supports hitachi 45 46 47 and there seems to be people that can reprogram the program to be compatible with 78fk I just need the firmware and key to proceed please help. Thanks in advance.

[gigabite]

well if it was me, I would tweak the pot and go from there...if you can't get it to go even after that then there's still a couple more options

gigabite

[tomxyy85]

Woow thanks for the quick reply in other forums it took days still nothing. And may I please know the other options. And how do you tweak the pot you mean like replace the laser? Sorry I am a complete newbie  when it comes to terms

[Arakon]

tweaking the laser won't do $#!t if it can't even read originals anymore. even if you could make it read games again briefly, you'd have to jack up the laser power to the point where it would burn out within days, weeks at best.

[gigabite]

^^ I know....the point was he was gonna replace it with a Sammy anyway so why not

gigabite

[tomxyy85]

Well I just replaced the laser with no problem and the laser lighting up but still unplayable disc error maybe it is the motor. I just transferred the laser from the samsung to hitachi because they were both compatible with each other SF-hd63 model. My one and only goal is to the get this key out of the hitachi drive so I could get it over with this hitachi. Is there anyplace that sales xbox 360 hitachi motor cheap couldn't find anything on ebay. THX

[tomxyy85]

Lol in a way gigabite you were 100% right just tweaked the laser and some magnet issues and poof the drive works perfect now but i am still going to replace it with the samsung but is there any way that microsoft could detect it is a spoofed drive and I am thinking of flashing it which ixtreme should i use etc thanks a bunch.

[Arakon]

if they really want to, they could detect a spoof. they don't yet, though.

[tomxyy85]

oK LOL I am trying to spoof my drive now but I understand that all the flashing is done through mtkflash or dosflash though usb and what not but then what I dont understand is how do you backup the original samsung firmware if the drive is not detected and you can't use toolbox to flash it etc... every guide in every website is different someone pelase help

EDIT: Ok I just read about how to do it but I can't find out about this mtkflash thing how do you get into that where do you download it where do you save it how do you boot into it what are the commands to dump and flash the firmware???.

[tomxyy85]

I got it all figured out how to do it with mtkflash but how do I make my vista to boot to dos and to C: drive? And what kind of computer have floppy these days so how should I boot into it can use cd? if so how please help

[gigabite]

make a bootable usb stick go here and get the hp format utility AND the 98 boot files (http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197) ... it's self explanatory, then i'd suggest using Xtreme Boot Maker (36 version) to make you a custom hex edited mtkflash (again self explanitory...just tick both boxes and do it to C:\....then go to C:\XBF\ and copy over mtkflash.exe and mtkflash.typ to your bootable USB) from there you should be good

gigabite

[DaMacFunkin]

Alternativley if your bios supports booting from usb hard drive you could just copy the dos bootable files  and mtkflash / dosflash to the flash drive and away you go.
I used windows enabler to let me format the stick with dos bootable files, so easy.