What You Need

1/ An Xbox 360 with a samsung drive

2/ A USB Drive (i used a 32mb one) how to make a xtreme dc-r here

3/ A SATA controller (VIA VT6421A pci card) buy from: here ( if you can get one cheaper get one )

4/ xtremebootmaker 5.3 (rc1) download from: here

5/ \firmware download: xtreme52.rar iXtreme v1.0

6/ You need to figure out which firmware your samsung drive has, there are two version, MS25 and MS28, it says on top of the dvd drive which firmware it has




start xbm 5.3 untick the box and type: (1234567 12345) in the box's like so

click the tab (general options) then open firmware (double click on the rar file or click open)

tick box use custom controller then list scsi controller and select the sata from the scroll down list

select (via VT6421A raid controller)

click on the tap (create basic disk)
select the xtream fw (eg:5.x b.c or d) then scroll down to the drive you ar flashing (i always use xtrem52c)

next destination drive is the usb stick select the usb stick then tick the box format / make drive bootable and then click create disk

your dun setting up the usb drive

happy flashing

open the usb pen drive just to check it. here is mine

flashing the ms28 360 drive

1:boot usb stick

2:on the dos screen turn on the 360

3:TYPE: (xread) with out brackets and hit enter

4:you will see the 360 drive (pri extream master) then turn off the 360

5:select the 360 drive (pri extream master) Waite 10 seconds

6:then turn the 360 on (it will start to read the 360 drive)

7:when it's finished it will go back to the cmd

8:here you need to restart your pc and turn of your 360 and boot back to dos

9:do the same to flash it just replace xread with xflash
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useing iXtreme v1 with xtremebootmaker
tick the box use custom controller then list scsi controllers
then select your sata last open the firmware it should look like so

now click create basic disc untick the box (i want to flash multiple drives) and number the boxes like so
select the usb stick/pen drive tick the box (format / make drive bootable)

last click on create disc thats it happy flashing
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TO RESTORE THE 360 DRIVE

click the tap create Restore disc

then click Open Original FW tap then select the orig.bin file

and click open


next destination drive select the usb stick

tick box format/make drive bootable

then click create disk

click ok then the little x the usb is ready to boot

restoring your drive

connect the 360 drive up and the usb stick boot to dos

then turn on the 360

type: xrest then turn off the 360

select the 360 drive: (pri xtream master)

count to 10 then turn on the 360 it should start to restore the drive

when its dun turn of the pc and 360

now your drive should be restored

Found by tpepsiman