As we know xbc and schtrom are indeed a great help but as the two xbox gurus work on the next releases (updates) a couple of games have come to light that are nothing but problems but indeed a couple of guys on the xbox scene have come up with a short term solution to keep are thumbs twitching and our backups burning

THANKS TO sosotiit (a great guy from the scene)

so you buy a new game and decide to back it up with xbox backup creator and your magic kreon drive and all of a sudden you are scratching your head over this display.



I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE !!! IT HAPPENED TO ME WITH CRACKDOWN!!!

tools you will need ss merger 1.7b , xbox backup creator and schtrom360 and also another original xbox360 title

CRACKDOWN SOLUTION:

first of all create a new folder on your desktop for example name it A

open xbox backup creator and insert the game title when the game is reconized by xbc go straight to the drive tool options and select the unlock drive tab twice it is very important you select this function twice.

once


twice


now click the read tab and return to the read options and check current partition (highlighted in green) followed by start selecting folder A as your destination.



once the start tab and been selected the dump process will begin and hopefully complete.



press the ok tab to continue



once you have selected the ok tab to complete the dump, select drive tools and now extract all three sectors SECURITY SECTORS, PFI AND DMI SECTORS again use folder A as your destination.



now remove the original game (mine was crackdown) and replace it with another original xbox360 title example : advanced warfighter.
and now open schtrom360xtract and select video iso from the task drop down box as shown below and again select folder A as the destination.





now open folder A .. it should look similiar to this NOTE: mine only appear like rar files due to winrar being installed.

MERGING AND BURNING

now you simply have to merge all the files together using ss merger to create a working burnable backup.



first of all name the title by simply typing in your required text , followed by selecting the iso game file you created earlier with XBC in folder A (see below) follow the wanrings as shown.





now simply add the ss , pfi and dmi sectors.



once all the above files have been locked and loaded , view the settings section in ss merger and set them as in the following image on completion select the merge and create layerbreak tab , and simply browse for the video file in folder A that you created with schtrom when prompted.







inside folder A



THIS METHOD MAY ALSO WORK WITH SOME OTHER PROBLEM TITLES

Great job man, rgds,soso

really good guide one problem though when i press the merge and create layerbreak tab ss merger 1.7b stops responding can you tell me what im doing wrong

the process is actually running in the background , i thought the same there is no procees bar to let you know , have a look in the folder where you are putting the files..

edit

HAVE YOU USED ANOTHER GAME WITH SCHTROM AND EXTRACTED THE VIDEO ISO, HAVE YOU SELECTED THIS WITH SS MERGER OR IS IT NOT RESPONDING BEFORE THIS POINT??WHAT TITLE ARE YOU TRYING TO BACKUP??


it does 100% work ive even played my backup this morning GO LIVE DUDE IM HERE TO HELP YOU!!

ive done the same as your guide with SCHTROM i used saints row and extracted the video iso ss merger works until i select the merge and create layerbreak tab and i select the video iso that i got from saints row then it freezes

check the destination folder , sometimes it appears to freeze but it is actually busy converting the files can you hear your hard drive?

yes i can hear my hard drive going how long does it take

when i press my mouse button on ss merger it says not responding in the top bar thats why i think its not working

if you look in the folder you should see the file being created with reference to the old one , depending on your system i would say 20 mins maybe 30 but saying this i was adding the images to soso's guide so i wasnt really time keeping