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Ts-h943 Dvd-rom Drive for Xbox 360 MS28

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To everyone that's buying this and it only reads movies etc but does not play games. YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS. Either you can flash the firmware for the circuit board inside the new drive , OR you can do the easier task and just take the circuit board out of your old drive and swap it with the one in your new drive. Then there is no need to flash. Just make sure you keep your old drive and take it apart and get the board disconnected from it. Once you take off the four screws and remove the cover on the old CD ROM Drive , the green PC board is right there. There is like 4 ribbon cables to remove and then its a direct replacement and fit into your new drive. Remember you have to also take out the green board in your new drive and swap it with the one in your old drive so you will have one worthless pc board from this new drive that you can not use. If you choose to flash the new board with the same coding from your old drive then it will give you two usable green boards so you will have a spare from your old drive. The mechanical parts on these cd roms are whats failing , not the pc boards inside them. Its much easier to swap the green boards than it is to flash IMO. The reason you change the boards is because the green board from your old cd rom drive has a coded serial key thats unique to your xbox360. Thats why this cd rom without the green board changed only plays movies and not games until you do this.

For those of you who are wondering how to replace your 360 dvd drive its very easy. I had a samsung and I bought this and switched it out, and it works fine. You just have to make sure to switch out the the circuit boards inside the drives, from your old drive to your new drive. It has a 'key' on it that identifies with you xbox. Other than that your good to go. This is a great buy. Oh yeah, and you don't need to flash your drive to get it to work just switch the boards...doesn't matter if its a firmware version 25 or 28 it will work.

Good drive! These drives have an average life expectancy of 1.5 years. Mine kicked the bucket at just over 2. i replaced it using a circut board swap. the model, serial number, or firmware are NOT important when doing a circut board swap. flashing is a little more difficult. I have refurbished 2 xboxs with this type of drive. quick tip: on some new drives the magnet on the dvd spindle is sometimes too strong so your new drive wont open especially if there is not a disk in the tray. the magnets power will eventually weaken due to heat. there are plenty of instructions on the net on how to fix this if it doesnt, or you could just use the old dvd drive lid.

To everyone that's buying this and it only reads movies etc but does not play games. YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS. Either you can flash the firmware for the circuit board inside the new drive , OR you can do the easier task and just take the circuit board out of your old drive and swap it with the one in your new drive. Then there is no need to flash. Just make sure you keep your old drive and take it apart and get the board disconnected from it. Once you take off the four screws and remove the cover on the old CD ROM Drive , the green PC board is right there. There is like 4 ribbon cables to remove and then its a direct replacement and fit into your new drive. Remember you have to also take out the green board in your new drive and swap it with the one in your old drive so you will have one worthless pc board from this new drive that you can not use. If you choose to flash the new board with the same coding from your old drive then it will give you two usable green boards so you will have a spare from your old drive. The mechanical parts on these cd roms are whats failing , not the pc boards inside them. Its much easier to swap the green boards than it is to flash IMO. The reason you change the boards is because the green board from your old cd rom drive has a coded serial key thats unique to your xbox360. Thats why this cd rom without the green board changed only plays movies and not games until you do this.

A simple d.i.y. fix that can save you downtime and money.
Online how to video on youtube.

My old ms25 called it quits after a couple years so i got this to replace it. Once i got all the firmware and such copied over, my xbox worked like new

Sweet. This product works great my 360 runs like new again. Its so worth it!

I ordered this disk drive to replace the failing one in my Xbox 360. It arrived in perfect condition, and It only took a small swap of the chipset inside to make it work in the xbox. If you do your research, It's a very quick and easy fix.

I am not going to go into detail because you can search for the information yourself. The reason it didn't work for one of the previous reviewers is that you have to extract the key from your previous xbox drive and flash that onto your new drive (aka spoofing). You also need to flash your drive to be able to read xbox 360 games. Please google for more information, don't just insult the product because you didn't know how to use it.

It was really easy to replace. Very fast. Swapped out the DVD player and reassmebled back together within like 5 minutes. Flashing Sucks. But didn't have to do it if you replace the card