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Hi all I have got a friends hitachi 78fk xbox360 in front of me all opened up and ready to go, Ive succesfully done a 59dj but never attemted a 78fk, So if anyone can give me info would be much appreciated, I am going to follow this tutorial and and just about to put in my via chipset which is the VT6421A is this ok to use with the 78fk?????
Tut im going to use: Is this all I need to do??? Thanx to all!
TUTORIAL FOR NEW INSTALLATIONS (v40-v78)
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- Put your Hitachi drive in ModeB with SLAX or CrossWire Trick (Hitachi 78
and above only support SLAX Method)
- Make sure you attach the Drive to the PC with a Native Sata port because
some PCI Sata cards are not supported or even some USB-SATA adapters are
not working well at this moment. Does not harm to try
- Make sure your drive is visible and has a letter asigned on Windows
- Launch Fw Toolbox and Go to "Tools->Direct Drive Dump"
- Choose the Hitachi drive u want to read/update (If u have only one then
will be auto-selected)
- There are 2 modes of reading the FW, Classic and RAW, RAW is far better
as no previous stealth method would fool it, but currently hangs if you
have the drive attached thru USB-SATA adapter, use only with native SATA.
Classic only works for Hitachi Versions Previous to 78 and if the drive
is already hacked then the reading could be fooled by the FW Stealth
methods. The best recomendation is USE RAW as first option.
- For the rest of this tutorial on new installation we would continue with
the RAW Method.
- Press the button "EJECT" on the window, the tray on the drive should open
- Insert a DVD Movie or an XBOX/XBOX 360 game on the tray, it does not
matter wich, originals works better.
- Press the button "LOAD" on the window, the tray should close, wait a few
seconds, if a window appear asking to open the media inserted, close it.
- Press the button "RAW Dump Firmware As ..." and choose the file name and
location of it. (We suggest call it original.bin) and keep it on safe place
because you could need it on the future if ever need restoring it.
- If everthing goes fine the reading will start and after a few seconds
a windows asking if u want to check the checksum will appear, Choose YES
- If the checksum check DOES NOT PASS then stop your installation, that
could be sign of a poor wire connection or a NO Compatible sata chipset.
Try on another PC.
- If the checksum PASS then will ask you if you want to open, Choose YES.
- Now the Main Window Will show you the details of the firmware as the
fw version, key information, checksum, etc.
- Now go to "Tools->Smart Hack Patcher", a window warning will appear,
choose OK.
- Choose the output file name, we suggest calling it final.bin and save it
on same location as the original. On the Ruleset option should be selected
automatically the needed for your version.
- Push "Generate File" button, if everthing goes fine the file will be
generated almost instantly, after that will ask you if you want to open it
Choose Yes.
- Now the Main Window will show the generated file (final.bin), go to
"Tools->Direct Drive Flash->Differential Flash Patch"
- Make sure the Hitachi drive u want to flash is selected, now press the button
"Read Drive and Detect Differences", after a few seconds the sectors list
below the button should be populated
- Press the "Start Flashing" button and after a few seconds the thing is done
you can shutdown everthing and start testing the drive on the console.
Tut im going to use: Is this all I need to do??? Thanx to all!
TUTORIAL FOR NEW INSTALLATIONS (v40-v78)
----------------------------------------
- Put your Hitachi drive in ModeB with SLAX or CrossWire Trick (Hitachi 78
and above only support SLAX Method)
- Make sure you attach the Drive to the PC with a Native Sata port because
some PCI Sata cards are not supported or even some USB-SATA adapters are
not working well at this moment. Does not harm to try
- Make sure your drive is visible and has a letter asigned on Windows
- Launch Fw Toolbox and Go to "Tools->Direct Drive Dump"
- Choose the Hitachi drive u want to read/update (If u have only one then
will be auto-selected)
- There are 2 modes of reading the FW, Classic and RAW, RAW is far better
as no previous stealth method would fool it, but currently hangs if you
have the drive attached thru USB-SATA adapter, use only with native SATA.
Classic only works for Hitachi Versions Previous to 78 and if the drive
is already hacked then the reading could be fooled by the FW Stealth
methods. The best recomendation is USE RAW as first option.
- For the rest of this tutorial on new installation we would continue with
the RAW Method.
- Press the button "EJECT" on the window, the tray on the drive should open
- Insert a DVD Movie or an XBOX/XBOX 360 game on the tray, it does not
matter wich, originals works better.
- Press the button "LOAD" on the window, the tray should close, wait a few
seconds, if a window appear asking to open the media inserted, close it.
- Press the button "RAW Dump Firmware As ..." and choose the file name and
location of it. (We suggest call it original.bin) and keep it on safe place
because you could need it on the future if ever need restoring it.
- If everthing goes fine the reading will start and after a few seconds
a windows asking if u want to check the checksum will appear, Choose YES
- If the checksum check DOES NOT PASS then stop your installation, that
could be sign of a poor wire connection or a NO Compatible sata chipset.
Try on another PC.
- If the checksum PASS then will ask you if you want to open, Choose YES.
- Now the Main Window Will show you the details of the firmware as the
fw version, key information, checksum, etc.
- Now go to "Tools->Smart Hack Patcher", a window warning will appear,
choose OK.
- Choose the output file name, we suggest calling it final.bin and save it
on same location as the original. On the Ruleset option should be selected
automatically the needed for your version.
- Push "Generate File" button, if everthing goes fine the file will be
generated almost instantly, after that will ask you if you want to open it
Choose Yes.
- Now the Main Window will show the generated file (final.bin), go to
"Tools->Direct Drive Flash->Differential Flash Patch"
- Make sure the Hitachi drive u want to flash is selected, now press the button
"Read Drive and Detect Differences", after a few seconds the sectors list
below the button should be populated
- Press the "Start Flashing" button and after a few seconds the thing is done
you can shutdown everthing and start testing the drive on the console.
