Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 I just bought a 360 for £26 from ebay, it has a faulty drive. I have a new drive for it (benq), same as faulty one. Does anyone know whether it's just a case of replacing the drive, or do you have to spoof the key of the old drive to get it to work ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 I dunno but I bought my 360 without a drive then I bought a random one off ebay, plugged it in and its worked fine ever since. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 You have to get the firmware or something like that from the old drive and replace it on the new drive, connecting it using a sata cable to your PC. Otherwise your console wont register it as the correct drive and you'll be banned from Xbox live if you connect to the internet, i'm not 100% on that though, just from what i've read when i was going to replace mine before it completely fucked. Not entirely sure how to do it, plenty of guides about though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Is it fair that Quaggy knows EVERYTHING about games consoles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Righto, i'm not flashing it to iextreme or anything but i've asked about on a few places and it looks like i've got to spoof the key from the old drive. I'm in the middle of doing it now on another pc. i would assume doing this is ok for live otherwise how would microsoft do it without replacing the mobo as well if the mobo doesn't recognise the drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Good stuff Lazlo Is the 360 for you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Just flash it to iextreme while you're at it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 No mate. It's just i was on ebay the other week and saw it cheap so i had it, the bairn has one already. I've got a buyer for it, if i can get a few more for that price i'll be happy. It's worked btw. Playing fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Just flash it to iextreme while you're at it I could but the guy who bought it doesn't want it done. Each to their own eh ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Excuse the thicko here but what exactly does 'flashing' do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 If you flash your xbox with iextreme firmware you can play copies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 If you flash your xbox with iextreme firmware you can play copies. It fools the 360 into thinking you have an original game in the drive. Nuff said about that in case i get told off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 If you flash your xbox with iextreme firmware you can play copies. It fools the 360 into thinking you have an original game in the drive. Nuff said about that in case i get told off Hmmm now I am interested, could you play non PAL games too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 It's a bit of a grey area from what i can gather. I read this which pretty much sums it up. Flashing doesn't change any of this i believe. I might be wrong There are no region free xbox's. None. They are either NTSC or PAL. The disks that you are playing are probably NTSC *(REGION FREE)* Meaning that although they are made for the NTSC/U or NTSC/J Market they have no region lock on the disks and they will play on Any regional code. The person that sent you the disks was probably aware of this which is why you got sent them. A lot of games are the same. Gears of War 2 NTSC was not region locked so it played on PAL consoles. So was MK vs DC universe, which is why a lot of Americans are purchasing the uncut UK version (Theirs has fatalities and some other things cut out)* A region free xbox is wishful thinking unfortunately. It's the disks not your console. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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