DVT4 help needed

[benjmole]

I just bought a DVT4 from babu on the Marketplace, and have come to the conclusion that the harddrive is dead. I've only managed to boot it twice.

Other times the harddrive just clicks, and hangs on the Xbox splash.

So, my plan was to get a recovery cd, and put a new harddrive in, and just do a recovery. Until i realised i couldn't find one, anywhere. Remote recovery wouldn't work either.

So, i was wondering if anyone here could help me out with finding a recovery cd, because i'd hate to have to send this back. :/

Thanks alot.

[splith]

I've got the unreleased one from MS, might be 5933 or something? On my other drive from a torrent I got years and years ago which has the recovery on it

[benjmole]

That'd be amazing! Providing its the recovery .iso

If you could up that somewhere, i'd be immensley grateful.

[ASSEMbler]

You need to take this private.

[benjmole]

You need to take this private.

Yeah, I know man. Just didn't know who to ask. :)

Thanks.

[splith]

From what I remember it wasn't an ISO, it was a setup EXE and required you had the xbox connected to the PC because the NFO said to skip that step unless you had an actual XDK. I'll go find that H/D now.

[benjmole]

Nice one. :)

[babu]

I just bought a DVT4 from babu on the Marketplace, and have come to the conclusion that the harddrive is dead. I've only managed to boot it twice.

Other times the harddrive just clicks, and hangs on the Xbox splash.

So, my plan was to get a recovery cd, and put a new harddrive in, and just do a recovery. Until i realised i couldn't find one, anywhere. Remote recovery wouldn't work either.

So, i was wondering if anyone here could help me out with finding a recovery cd, because i'd hate to have to send this back. :/

Thanks alot.

ouch, so the hdd is making clicking sounds?
and I thought I packaged it pretty ok =/
was the package broken? as I just told you on the pm (sorry about the delay, been busy) i've had some trouble booting it to but after reconnecting all wires it works as supposed to (for me it did anyway).
I hope the drive isn't broken :S

[benjmole]

All sorted. Thanks babu!

[babu]

great to here :)

[Tyler]

A little of topic but, when would be the appropriate time to go about releasing betas for a system? After its dead, but how long?
and is it different from proto's(betas) to system discs (recov/sdk)

Like for example a proto for 360, would it be appropriate to release as soon as the next gen is launched? or wait a year or 2.

Or say an xbox 1 recovery, would it be appropriate to release it now? or should some time still pass before it can be acceptable to publicly document and share?

Just wondering...



EDIT: and another question, say like 5 years from now, Someone were to post in this section asking for a specific xbox 1 Recovery, would that be ok since its long dead?

[splith]

The XBOX 1 recovery discs are freely available, even those that were not sent to other companies by MS.