some queries i need answering please

[tommy2426]

Hi folks, going to try and put my points across without confusing eveyone, especially me, ok got and old 360 from a friend, the drive is knackered, its an MS25 sammy, i managed to extract the OFW from it, because, if im write in saying i will need this if im going to spoof a replacement drive, please correct me if im wrong, as iv'e never spoofed a drive yet, the thing is the guy i got it from is not 100% sure if the drive is the correct drive for the xbox, so now it gets confusing, how can i tell if the drive i have is the right drive for that xbox, because if its not would it mean that i cant spoof another drive with the OFW i have got, ie it wouldn't match the xbox, hope this makes enough sense, and any help would be much appreciated

[ezzda1]

you are right,
whats wrong with the original drive?
what does it do when you place an original in it?
what does it do when you place a DVD in it?
do you have a spare Known working drive to test the ofw you got off the broken one?
if it's saying open tray it might just need a new laser they're about ?5 for sammys.

[tommy2426]

The drive wont open at all m8, its completley dead, tried all sorts with it but it wont do a thing, tried putting games and dvd's etc in it manually but still doesnt fire up, the green light on the power button keeps flashing, so all i could think of was its the drive, i dont have a spare dive at the moment and i was reluctant to buy one until i got some advice, so if anyone out there's got a old sammy drive doing nothin let me know

[cgscott]

Have a look at recovering it in dos as it sounds to me like its had a bad flash resulting in no response. If you flash the orig firmware back to it in dos it will be recovered. Then go back to doing the JF way again.

[ezzda1]

yep sounds like a bad flash or no firmware on the drive,
do what cgscott said.
get i-prep use it to create a bootable usb stick, and use that with your original fw dump to recover the drive, there's lots of tutorials out there.