Swapping xbox 360 dvd drives
 

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?

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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.

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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

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Jorsher is right. You need to extract the key from the original drive's firmware and then reflash that into a new firmware file for whatever drive you're swapping it with.

It doesn't matter if you're swapping drive brands, it should still work.

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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.

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If you lost your old drive and you don't have a copy of it's BIN file though, you are officially screwed and there is NO way to get your Xbox to work.

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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.

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

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Read up

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...&showforum=169

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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.

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you can buy them with the RROD for $50 or so. The one I got still had the seal intact so I just called microsoft and they fixed it for free, then I bought a new hard drive and 2 controllers all in all I have $200 invested for the xbox, all cables, 3 wireless controllers, 20gb hard drive, and GTA4. not too bad, I guess its pretty easy to fix the RROD you'rself but if the seal is not broken its free from microsoft.

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You send both drives to me and I reflash them with the opposite firm ware for $20 :6

No worries of you ------- anything up