Hacking Help? Bought second hand pre-RGH'd Corona 360 with Bad Blocks.

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Does anyone want to be an absolute hero and help me through this?

As the title states, I bought an xbox 360 from Facebook Marketplace a couple of weeks ago and everything seemed fine with it when I got it home. The console already had a few games on it and a couple of profiles from the original owner. I proceeded to create my own profile and then I set up a connection with my wifi and restarted the console.

After restarting the console, I tried to immediately return back to the NXE dashboard and the console crashed on a blank black screen. Fortunately, the console is set up to automatically run Aurora at start-up, so I am able to access all homebrew and games still, but now I have absolutely no access to the NXE dashboard.

After a bit of research and help online, I think I've found out there are bad blocks on the console and would like to fix this but I have no idea where to start. I have experience with software modifications on other consoles so I'm no spring chicken, but Xbox modding is a completely new arena for me. Any help would be massively appreciated.

EDIT: I don't actually mean the XNE Dashboard. I got it mixed up with the Metro Dashboard but regardless the problem remains the same.
 
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Xebuild should remap your bad blocks by default.,nands can have bad blocks off the factory line.. this isnt limited to just xbox 360's either
 

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So what can I do to get access back to the NXE? I was able to access it when I first got the console and within the same day I lost access so I know it was able to do so in the first place. I need an answer I can work with.
 

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you can get back to the official dash by clicking the guide button, then going to system settings. that should load the official dash, which I guess is nxe in your case. the newest official dash is called metro.
 

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No. I can't access the original NXE dashboard using any method. All attempts to access the dashboard freezes the xbox onto a blank black screen.
 

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No I don't. I'm not the original modifier of the console. As I said in the post, I bought it second-hand on facebook marketplace (off some random teen). I have been trying to find a way of dumping the nand but none of the tools like 'flash360' are working for me.
 

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I've tried using that too. I select 'Dump Nand/Flash' but no matter which directory I pick, I get an error message directly after the message that tells me 'Not to press any buttons during the process' *

I'm pretty sure the problem with the console is also affecting the usb functionality as I cannot get the console to recognise any USB drives (apart from when inside a game, sometimes when I select the storage device for a game, the drive will show up as an unrecognised drive, but any attempts to format it for 360 use also crashes the console - as I would imagine it needs the original dashboard to do that)

*Or something along those lines.
 

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you can update through xell as well, but you'd need a nand backup. I'm not sure what else to suggest other than something may have come loose in the system.
 
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