Bad flash 78fk hitatchi

[Mikem01]

i flashed my hitatchi 78fk and it didnt work and now my xbox 360 wont eject or read discs! is there any way to fix this?

[Xb0xGuru]

Try using Jungleflasher in PORTIO32 mode instead of WinAPI mode (press Shift-Ctrl-F12 to enable it). Manually eject the drive and switch on the drive. Click on the button for mode-b and it should put it into mode-b for you. Then try restoring the drive - hopefully it should dump, then reflash your drive with a valid firmware as well as recalculating and flashing the master checksum.

If this doesn't work, the only other way is to remove the TSOP and reprogram it.

[B1N4RY]

@Xb0xGuru

His drive is BRICKED!
The ONLY solution is to get a infectus 2 and reflash the ROM or desolder it, and bring out your willem programmer.

[Xb0xGuru]

@Xb0xGuru

His drive is BRICKED!
The ONLY solution is to get a infectus 2 and reflash the ROM or desolder it, and bring out your willem programmer.

I've used the above method to resolve bricked drives. PORTIO32 doesn't rely on the existing firmware being operational - it does a blind dump/write, which is why I prefer it to using WinAPI.

[Arakon]

as far as I know, hitachi drives get code uploaded and executed, not plain read/write. the code can't upload if the FW is fried.

[Xb0xGuru]

as far as I know, hitachi drives get code uploaded and executed, not plain read/write. the code can't upload if the FW is fried.

With the exception of one drive (where the controller chip was fried), I've managed to retrieve the DVD key from every bricked Hitachi using this method and also managed to get a few working again too.