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Easy Fix to Prevent Microsoft From Bricking Xbox 360s HDD

Some simple soldering will remove one of the crippling effects of Microsoft’s update

Microsoft came down with fire and fury upon the unsuspecting modding community. Where past rounds of bans has typically been limited to a couple thousand users, this time it kicked off over 1 million Xbox Live users. Microsoft detected modified drive firmware and installed an update on the banned consoles, bricking them.

While still technically able to play games, the consoles had their cryptographic keys revoked resulting in corruption to Gamertags and saves used with the console. Additionally, hard drive installation of games was banned and the usage of the Windows Media Player extender was disallowed. Microsoft is telling those caught with their hands in the modding cookie jar to buy new consoles.

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