alpalwal

i have a couple 360s sitting around with the RROD and then one that doesn't have the rings of death but the dvd drive won't recognize anything is in it.

I swapped a drive from one of the other systems in it but when I put in COD4 it came up and said you need to run this on a xbox 360 to use it. Is there a firmware update or something I'm missing to make this work?

Jorsher

I'm pretty sure you have to get the "key" from the crap drive, and flash a firmware to the "good" drive with that key, but I'm not sure.

I gotta do the same to my 2 broke 360s.

MAJORAHOLE

you sure you have the same brand drive as stock? i know there were at least 3 different types/brands. ya there is some kind of key/firmaware deal you have to do. you might bed able to swap the laser assembly, although i would search around first

Jorsher

Cool, good to hear for sure because I've been too lazy to check into it. I just knew you had to have a drive with matching keys, and knew people sell the standalone drives online so there had to be a way.

Nice.

Jorsher

Yeah I'm hoping the drive that doesn't work at least ... kinda works, so I can read the key from it. I don't know if it's flat out dead or just won't read discs.

alpalwal

so.. im a bit dumb on the xbox. where is the key and how do you transfer it?

RotaryGeek

i wont buy a 360 till they are less than 150 and dont have anymore problems. just not worth it right now. everythinge is way too expensive.