Replacing broken MS28 with Hitachi drive

[radddogg]

I have just got a 360 with a broken MS28 drive. The disc tray motor won't spin at all. I have swapped the motor with a spare hitachi motor and it still won't spin. I know the easiest option is to buy a new MS28 and swap the pcb however I have this spare hitachi drive which works fine (I get the single red light when I plug it in signifying a key error). Is there a way I can extract the key from the MS28 and swap it out onto the hitachi? All the tutorials I find are for soft modding to play back ups but I just want to replace a broken drive with a working on. Or is there a common known fault that stops the tay motor spinning?

Thanks

Rob

[Rory]

I wouldn't get your hopes up. I'm pretty certain that even if you did "Re-marry" the Motherboard with the DVD drive, it would still flash 1 red light. Due to the motherboard not liking the different model of DVD drive.

Its a guess. I don't know anyone who has attempted this but feel free to try. If you do get it working though, MS might block your console from XBL for tampering with it.

I don't know anyone who has attempted this, and I'm pretty certain it would be on a news site that its been done.

But yeah, feel free to try it

[802Chives]

I believe you can do this with a key extractor from team executer.  swapping mobos probably wont work unless they are really close to being identical.

theres tons of stuff on the net to help you with this, here is one of them:
http://www.360-hq.com/xbox-tutorials-49.html