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What do you need to flash the spoofed firmware to your Lite-on DVD drive?

This is a good question. There are many ways to flash your Lite-on DVD drive. You can use Windows based applications such as Jungle Flasher or DosFlash32 etc. However, there are many reports that once you have erased the firmware of your lite-on, you PC will freeze whenever you power on the Lite-on. We have found the DOS based Dosflash works way better than these Windows applications. It never freezes your PC!

There you go, you will need the following stuff before you can flash your lite-on in DOS:

1. A bootable media, such as bootable floppy disk, a bootable USB key or a bootable CD, which can boot your machine in native DOS environment. DOS prompt in WINDOWS won't work!
2. lite-on-erase.exe (a.k.a l_o_eras.exe). We found the lite-on-erase.exe is the best tool in DOS to erase your Lite-On firmware. This is part of [iXtreme 1.5]
3. DOSFLASH.exe. Use this to flash the Lite-on in DOS mode. This is part of [iXtreme 1.5]
4. Spoofed lite-on firmware. Don't have it yet? Follow Spoof XBOX 360 Lite-on DVD drive firmware to get the spoofed firmware

Step 1: Prepare

In this step you need to have all required files on the bootable media. This including DOSFLASH.exe, lite-on-erase.exe and spoofed firmware. The reason for have all files in the bootable media is because that most Windows nowdays use NTFS file system, the standard Win98 DOS cannot access it.

Use a bootable CD

Download the Win98 bootable ISO image from [here], and save to your hard disk.

Download Magic ISO from [here], and install it. The trial version is free. The trial version is good enough for our task.

Launch Magic ISO, click on Try it:

Click on Try it

Now you are on the main screen of Magic ISO. Click on the small "open file" icon on the top-right corner of the screen:

Open ISO file to edit

Select the Win98_bootdisk.iso you downloaded from previous step, and click open:

Select Win98_bootdisk.iso

Now you are back to the main screen again. You will notice that the icon is changed from non-bootable to bootable (top-right side). Now browse the DOS folder of iXtreme 1.5, hold CTRL key and select Dosflash.exe, dosflash.typ and l-o-eras.exe, drag and drop these files to the window above:

Select DOSFlash files and drop to window above

Now, browse to the folder contains the spoofed firmware, select it, drop it to the window above too:

Drop spoofed firmware and drop it to the window above

Now, you have added all required files for flashing your firmware. You need to save it to a new ISO file. Click on File and select Save As...:

Save ISO image

Browse to a writeable folder, name it as New_Win98.iso, click Save:

Save as New_Win98.iso

Now we need to burn the image to a CD. Select Tools/Burn CD/DVD with ISO...{

Burn ISO

Click on the icon for CD/DVD Image File:

Open file

Select the newly created New_Win98.iso and click Open:

Select New_Win98.iso created before and click open

You are back to Burn CD/DVD dialog. Eject CDRW tray, insert a blank CD or CD-RW media. In my case, I inserted a non-empty CD-RW media:

Select writing speed:

Select speed

I my case, I need to erase the media. If your inserted in a blank CD, then you can ignore the erase step. Click on Erase to erase the media:

Erase CD-RW

Now click "Burn it":

Burn Image

Burning:

Burning

Done! CD will be automatically ejected and the title is change to (success):

Done!

Now, you have a bootable CD contains all required files for flashing your Lite-on DVD!

Use a bootable USB key

Coming soon...

Use a bootable floppy disk

Coming soon...

Step 2: Erase Lite-on DVD drive firmware

WARNING: Make sure you have retrieved the key/inquiry/identify files. Once you have erased your Lite-on, there is no going back!!!! Save the key/identify/inquiry files in a safe place, such as burn on CD, save it in your email account, etc!!!!

Now insert the bootable CD created in previous steps to your machine's CD or DVD ROM, reboot your machine from CD. You may need to change your BIOS setting to allow CD-ROM/DVD-ROM as the first bootable device.

You will be presented with this screen. Select first option: Start computer with CD-ROM support and press Enter:

Select Start with CD support and hit Enter key

After a few seconds, the system is booted with DOS. Now, change the drive letter to your CD ROM. If you don't know, just try C:, D:, E: until you find out it. In my case, the CD-ROM is D: drive. Do a dir command, you should see these four files: L-O-ERAS.EXE DOSFLASH.EXE DOSFLASH.TYP LITE_CFW.BIN

Now, connect Lite-on to the SATA port using SATA cable, connect the DVD power cable to DVD adapter and Lite-On DVD Drive. Then connect the Molex connector to DVD power adapter:

Connect cables

Run L-O-ERAS.EXE <SATA port number>. In my example, I have Lite-on at A000, so I ran: L-O-ERAS.EXE A000:

erase firmware

If you see status FF80, then run the command again, until you see status 0x72 which stands for "erased". Now, disconnect molex connector from DVD power adapter:

Disconnect molex

You have erased the factory firmware in your lite-on!

Step 3: Flash Lite-on DVD drive with spoofed firmware

Make sure the Molex connector is NOT connected to the DVD power adapter. Reboot the machine using the bootable CD we created again. Once system is booted in DOS, reconnect Molex connector to DVD power adapter:

Connect cables

Find the drive contains DOSFLASH.EXE, type DOSFLASH.exe at the command line, and hit Enter. You will be presented with the following screen:

Dosflash screen

It displays the flash chip information of your lite-on (1). Answer N (2), select 0 (3), select W (4), and type in the spoofed firmware file name lite_cfw.bin (5). The underscore after lite_cfw.bin is the cursor so don't type in it! Now hit Enter:

Done! Lite-On flashed with spoofed firmware!

You are done! Power off PC, put Lite-On back to your XBOX 360, it should work now!

Troubleshooting

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