If you are sure the disc drive is original, start by checking drive functionality. Does it take in and out discs normally? Is all power rails supplying the disc drive and the power rails on the drive controller board present?
Yes the disc drive board stays with the CPU and SSD boot partition.
Are you sure if the drive is original? If you did not replace it, it’s possible someone else did.
Because they wanted to save $2 per console.
Xbox One boots from an eMMC chip, S/X could do the same and in fact uses the same southbridge chip and has a spot for the eMMC chip, but MS omitted the eMMC and opted to store the core firmware right on the SSD, to save costs.
This makes the data on...
Not possible.
Xbox has a well-implemented secure boot and disk file encryption. It ONLY loads official Xbox OS and it has version checks so even legit OS files won’t run if the version is too early.
There is zero public progress in terms of hacking the boot verification, JTAG method can’t...
Depends. Some games actually have the bulk of the content already in the game, the DLC purchase is just a license entry to unlock it.
For those DLCs that are actually separate downloads, I imagine they are encrypted just like the main package.
Problem is you can't. The drive is only checked for device model whitelisting, encryption isn't a part of it.
What's really nasty is MS omitted the eMMC chip and put per-console encrypted critical files right on the SSD, complicating drive swap because you need to copy these files and if the...
Looks like it allows you to run stuff in SystemOS devmode as administrator, maybe more useful for curiosity and research than actually useful for devmode, you could run stuff as an administrator in a full feature Windows installation anyway.
It doesn't go down into hostOS or security processor...
sorry, beein trying to find this file that's been right in front of me for a month now, only to find broken links, and google to prove that it's completely worthless.