1. You could ALWAYS flash the 83850C drives, the "modder" had NFI what he was doing so I wouldn't be going back that way. It would have been best to keep the lite-on drive in the console as they are imo far superior to the old samsungs.
2. You NEED your original 83850C drive in your console now, otherwise the console will not update to the latest 13XXX dashboard. During the update it will check to determine if the drive is original or not. Have a non-original drive on the 12625 dashboard will also raise a live ban flag.
3. Next version is LT 1.9 and it should be released soon (next week or two at the latest)
4. Yes you can play everything except XGD3 backups with LT1.9 (you need LT2.0 for this)
5. Take it to a different installer and get your original drive put back in and flashed with the latest firmware.
6. You can use a to get a "external" drive for your Xbox 360 Console
7. NME is old, no one uses it I dont think anyone sells it anymore and it only worked on really old drives anyone.
Hope Ive answered all your questions, let me know if there is anything else.
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