I recently bought a ms28 drive to replace my 360's original ms25 that wouldnt read disks any longer - dvd movies, original xbox 360 games and xbox 360 backups. About April 2008 I flashed the original drive (ms25) from factory firmware to iextreme 1.4 as an ms25 drive. I kept that firmware on it until the end of March 2009 when I flashed it to ixtreme 1.51 as an ms28. It suddenly stopped reading disks this past week, so I bought an ms28 from a local shop to replace it. I am about to flash the new drive (ms28) with iextreme 1.6 but I dont know if I should flash it as an ms25 or ms28. With the original drive (ms25) flashed with 1.4 as an ms25 the system made it through the bannings last fall unscathed. On the other hand since it was flashed with 1.51 as an ms28 for the last month or so its been smooth sailing until it stopped reading disks this past week. My main concern here is staying unbanned on xbox live (the drive was reading original games/backups fine whether flashed as ms25 or ms28). So should I flash my new ms28 with 1.6 as a ms25 or ms28 ? Thanks, Brett
you will need to flash the ms28 as a ms25 extract the drivekey from the orig.bin or your modded firmware replace the drivekey in the 1.6 use firmware toolbox to copy and paste the key into 1.6 use jungle flasher or irpep and replash the drive
You could just take the board from the old drive and put it in the ms28 then no flashing is required and it should work.
When I bought the ms28 this week thats what I did at first - worked fine. But it still left me with the issue of having ms28 firmware on a board that was originally from an ms25 drive. Again the original drive (before it died this week) read games/dvds fine whether it had 1.4 flashed as ms25 or 1.51 flashed as ms28. Maybe my 360 was manufactured before ms implemented the version tracking/checking of dvd drives in the 360's ? Anyway I reflashed the drives firmware with 1.6 as an ms25 tonight and its working well so far. Thanks, Brett
