flashing & dumping original hitachi 47

[HAZ3]

hello all,

I was concerned about doing the following as I've been doing research on how to dump the original firmware off my hitachi 47dj to no avail for the past week however my questions are the following:

if i use iprep 1.4 (being the only one available) will that dump my original key when i flash it? bear in mind that this is a non hacked/flashed drive as it's stock (its a hitachi console)

I've read some threads in other forums & here that supposedly you have to eject the drive insert a og game or dvd then push it by hand to close after yo uhave windows detect it. is this true or can i go straight to flashing from stock without having to do that & again will it back up my original firmware if i flash it to 1.4?

I also want to replace the drive to a new ms28 however my understanding is that if you dont have the og firmware you cant unless of course you have the og firmware off the initial drive (in this case, the hitachi 47dj) or per what cofree said if i download it via team-modfreaks i can use the firmware that pertains to my drive & use that key? will that work?

lastly, I'm a bit confused on spoofing the drive, I've seen a tutorial vid on it but still a bit confused on how to do so & hack it using firmware tools 4.8 iirc.

any help would b much appreciated as I'm pretty much burned out after a weeks worth of studying & being a sponge to all this info here & there, etc. thanks

[parminder]

hi well it depends on how you connect the drive and how you power it. i always use xeno connectivity kit which powers the drive and put it into mode b which is neccessary so that it can show up in windows. when on windows you can just go to my computer and look for your drive and try to eject the drive few times from there and see if its really there, once you verified that you extract your itxtreme 1.4 and look for flash and just click on it ( if your drive is stock ) and follow the instructions carefully. this will automatically dump your dvd firmware and flash your drive to 1.4. at the end it should say 100% complete if the flash was successfull.

if you dont have a xeno kit then i think you will have to get slax to put it into mode b but i am not sure if its used to put any hit drive. i know they are used to put 079 drives but not sure for a 47.

once you finish flashing you can check if the firmware and the key is good by checking with toolbox 4.5 or newer. you can find the firmware in a backup folder in your ixtreme folder. if you have different letter and numbers then you have a good firmware. make sure you make atleast 3-4 copies of your firmware and place it in different folders.

about spoofing you can do that using toolbox again, i will try and look for the tutorial for that and then how to flash your samsung.

[HAZ3]

thanks for the reply parminder. I'm using a ck3 pro kit & via 6421 pci card. I did verify the drive was stock when i reconnected it last night & tried gow. played back w/o error. Now once that's done, i know I'm going to have to spoof my ms28 (samsung) into the hitachi (47dj) however, the part I'm stumped on is whether or not i really do need the original firmware/key fomr the ms28 as the drive is new. cofree directed me to another site (team-modfreaks) where i had originally found the firmware beforehand after about a weeks worth of research. I grabbed both the ms28a & ms28b, thinking a is the correct one for my drive considering that's what it says on the sticker affixed to it. This is where i stopped. I know the last step is to spoof it which is where I'm getting a bit confused but if do find the tutorial, i do greatly appreciate it

[HAZ3]

alright, i successfully dumped & flashed the drive now i just need help on spoofing. another couple of q's i got:

when i went into mode b using the ck3 pro kit, i had to have the button "up" instead to be in mode b for it to be red, thought it was strange but then again I guess it differs than the old version. who knows? anyhow, windows immediately detected it as the hl drive drive I did a scan to see if any other changes & it still displayed it however, when i tried ejecting it from windows, it didn't give me that option so i was like, meh. the thing that mattered the most is that it was detected, regardless. afterwards, i proceeded to flash as it was a stock drive that was never flashed as i didn't any see files (were they suppose to appear anywhere @ all? i I know it sounds like a stupid q but it wouldn't make any sense to connect hardware & immediately display software for it as well, hence the use for drivers ie the via pci card, you cant use it if you have no drivers) or anything nor did i restore it, i just went straight to flashing. i am using firmware toolbox 4.8. i verified the keys & it came up w/ random numbers & letters with no repeats from what it seemed. Additionally after flashing, it stated it was successful. both the was & now bins are exactly the same. uncertain if it's suppose to be that way but from the looks of it, i think it's legitimate. correct me if i'm wrong though.


Now i think if I'm going to spoof the ms28 into being the hitachi 47dj, i would be using the original was bin? or what it make a difference if i used the now bin? with this in mind, i'm also thinking im going to have to rename the ms28a file i dl from team-modfreakz despite the fact that file was verified as all 000's via fw toolbox 4.8. i'm guessing it doesn't matter as i'm going to be replacing it with the original was or now bin from the hitachi drive. again, correct me if i'm wrong.

if all is well, please let me know what the following steps as I seem to be on the right path thus far I'll verify the new flash on the hitachi later today as it's 6am right now.

[HAZ3]

Bump, anyone?

[sadalius]

To spoof the ms-28 to report as the hitachi, all you need is they key from the hitachi firmware file. Whether it comes from now or was doesn't really matter, you just need that key.

Take the samsung firmware you downloaded from team modfreakz and paste your hitachi key into it with firmware toolbox. Then still using firmware toolbox, spoof it to the hitachi 47. Then take and create your hacked firmware and then flash it. Done and done.

[HAZ3]

To spoof the ms-28 to report as the hitachi, all you need is they key from the hitachi firmware file. Whether it comes from now or was doesn't really matter, you just need that key.

Take the samsung firmware you downloaded from team modfreakz and paste your hitachi key into it with firmware toolbox. Then still using firmware toolbox, spoof it to the hitachi 47. Then take and create your hacked firmware and then flash it. Done and done.

thanks for the reply sadalius i was hoping you would respond. well I successfully flashed the new ms28 as a hitachi 47 however, the one q i got now is the following:

the console was ebay bought & was stated that if the drive was set vertically, it wouldn't work however i never place the 360 in an upright position always horizontal. now i flashed the hitachi drive as it was stock & i didn't run a restore on it prior to flashing to 1.4 it will playback originals & cd's havent tried dvd but don't doubt it will work however when i playback back ups, it gives me the message unreadable disc. any ideas? or would you suggest i restore the drive then reflash it w/ ixtreme 1.4 like i did originally then test it out afterwards?

[sadalius]

If the drive plays originals and CD's, there is nothing wrong with the firmware. The problem is generally one of two things. Either the backups aren't made correctly, or your hitachi has a weak laser. Hitachi's are notorious for read problems. In fact I just replaced a hitachi 78 with a samsung just the other day to prevent such a thing from happening down the road.

What kind of disks are you using for your backups and was this hitachi flashed stock or was it flashed with a hacked firmware before and tested and prooven to run backups? I usually restore a hitachi before re-flashing it, but I know other people thats flashed them straight up and they work ok so I don't really know what to tell you about the restoration. If worse comes to worse, it won't hurt to try to restore and re-flash it.

[HAZ3]

If the drive plays originals and CD's, there is nothing wrong with the firmware. The problem is generally one of two things. Either the backups aren't made correctly, or your hitachi has a weak laser. Hitachi's are notorious for read problems. In fact I just replaced a hitachi 78 with a samsung just the other day to prevent such a thing from happening down the road.

What kind of disks are you using for your backups and was this hitachi flashed stock or was it flashed with a hacked firmware before and tested and prooven to run backups? I usually restore a hitachi before re-flashing it, but I know other people thats flashed them straight up and they work ok so I don't really know what to tell you about the restoration. If worse comes to worse, it won't hurt to try to restore and re-flash it.

verbatim, burned @ 2x each. it worked w/o error on the new ms28 but i too was thinking that since the seller did mention the optical drive was kind of funky from thr getgo & not only that but when it reads the disc it makes a funky clicking sound so i knew something was up. the drive was stock as i tried it out with an original game the first time but no back up. afterwards when i flashed it, i saw nothing unusual. it didnt bother restoring the drive the 1st time @ all just a straight flash.

[sadalius]

Like I said, I usually do a restore and thats because most everything I've read says to. But I've got a few friends that just straight up flashed over already hacked hitachi's and they worked just fine. You might even try a POT tweak on this drive, but if you do, be careful and not over do it or you'll end up having to get a new laser anyway.