Originally Posted by Skinleech
It's not as easy to replace as you think. Each drive has a key that is specific to that drive & to the motherboard. In order to use a different drive, you need to get the key out of the firmware on your original drive, and spoof the new drive with the right key.
There's software around that will do it all for you, but it's not as easy as you'd think.
As for the problem at hand - has he opened the Xbox at all? If so, did he plug the sata cable back into the drive?
Can't you just change the the DVD-Drive board from the old one to the new one if they are the same make and model???
The reason im asking ive just ordered a drive today should be here tomorrow.. so im just searching through forum's etc.. to see what the best option is.
but i've seen that you can change the board on some drives, but i dont know if you can on the Toshiba Samsung MS25...
