DimeSlime
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« on: January 22, 2009, 07:26:20 AM » |
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Does anyone have or know where to get a undo.bin file for a WD1200BEVS RST drive?
I flashed this drive using hddhackr 9.1, and then stuck it in the xbox and it saw it and it formatted it. Then I stuck it back in my PC and did a full restore using xplorer360 Beta 3, it took a while and finished. And I saw all three partitions and what looked like all the data. However I put it back in my xbox and it didnt see it.
So I said ok, I am just going to flash it again and then let xbox format it and go from there without a restore, at least Ill ahve the drive. I flashed it again, and stuck it in my xbox. Xbox didnt read it. I put it back in my PC, I booted up and saw that the drive now only has 32 MB of space!! Ouch!!
I looked around for factory firmware for this drive, however did not find any. So does anyone know where to get factory firmware for a flash, or a good undo.bin for that drive?
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DimeSlime
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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 10:10:55 AM » |
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Im assuming the thing is bricked. There are no firmware updates of any type from WD for these drives anywhere. The closest I can find are smaller drives from the Scorpio series from Dell.com
I will have to order another drive, sadly. At least it will STILL come under the cost of a regular MS 120 gig drive. Im going to flash it, format it, and use it. Not even attempting to restore from my 20 gig.
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jelle2503
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 10:45:23 AM » |
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just flash it again with the 120gb hddss
i suppose you did a full restore on your BEVS drive, from an image of your memorycard.
if you full restore your 20gb image on a 120gb xplorer seems to overwrite hddss.bin as well
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DimeSlime
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 02:50:52 PM » |
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Ok. I am going to try to analyze the drive with winhex and se if I can come up with anything. I believe I tried to flash it again, and got some funky error within DOS. But I will try that again soon.
Can you flash the drive if you have not initialized it in windows? I was doing something screwy. I was initializing the drive, and then creaing a partition, and then putting the hddhackr files on that partition. Then using this ntfs boot disc, (because I could not for the life of me find a boot cd that would allow me to read files from my dvd drive, the iso image did load ntfs dos though) and then accessing C:\, which was my bevs drive. My main drive was of course disconnected at this point. tihs worked, I got the drive to format on the 360 as stated above!!
Tonight I am going to try a different route, if I cannot get winhex to work. I will try to load dos off of my cell phone (a dare wich has a feature on the phone that allows the memory card to be used as flash and plugged in via usb). Failing that, I will get a jump drive. Failing that I have ordered a new drive already anyway.
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DimeSlime
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 03:30:19 PM » |
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If I just flash the drive, and stick it in the xbox and let it format. According to many here, partitions 1 and 2 will be missing. What is the consequence of this? If I was ok with starting with a blank drive, and I not going to be able to do certain things??
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jimbo70
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 04:40:41 PM » |
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Not sure of any real downside with the exception of not transferring my data from my 20gb to my new 120gb drive, but all I did was flash it with hddhackr, put it in my 360 & formatted it. From there I've downloaded some stuff from xboxlive & copied a game to it & so far things seem ok.
Many others on here could tell you better though if there are any other downsides.
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neonpolaris
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 05:29:31 PM » |
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I believe you'll lose Xbox 1 compatibility that way.
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DimeSlime
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2009, 08:51:44 AM » |
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Sadly this thing is toast. The only other thing I can think to try would be to flash my new drive, then using the undo.bin I got from that flash, try to run hddhackr -u on this old drive. They are the same exact model. Failing that, totally out $55 bucks. damn it.
I tried to write all zeros to the drive, that worked! But it was only 32 MB worth of zeros. I also tried to manually change the number of cylinders using winhex, and then I scanned the drive, and every cylinder past the ones that were there natually, said failed to find cylinder.
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neonpolaris
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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2009, 11:12:51 AM » |
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If they are the exact same model, I'd be interested to hear the results of using the undo from one on the other. I mean, it's not something I would try between two working drives as a test, but you don't really have much to lose at this point. Please post back your results.
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DimeSlime
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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2009, 06:53:35 PM » |
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The good news is my new drive is flashed and already installed in its case and working great with my 360.
The bad news is the new drive was a different sub-model or whatever, and it did flash off of the user.bin. However then, even as a slave, it caused windows to blue screen right after the initial flash screen. I tried it in my 360 before fully installing the working drive, and the big ball logo came up, however the controller kept flashing and nothing responded.
I wonder what went wrong? Why did reflashing the drive after trying to restore the full image from my 20 gig totally hose it?
It was a good learning experience anyway. I could have spent 55 dollars in a bar.
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