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Dragnshdo
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I used the search, but couldn't find anything:

Is there a way to boot (is that the right term?) backups from a USB DVD drive? I just got my 360 last wednesday, and don't want to mod the console itself.

I am a noob >_>
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wabashman
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
xD
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wabashman
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok?
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by wabashman:
 ok?
I just wasn't expecting an answer so short lol.
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wabashman
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 18:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well perhaps you should have searched a little bit longer as this has been asked/answered a million times.
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stealthdf
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 19:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if it was that easy to do this type of stuff you wouldnt need to search cause we would all be doing it. and if it was really that easy then why dont we just throw our consoles away and just rig some drive to play backups. screw the corporations we can just make our own machine that will run their games.
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 19:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by wabashman:
 well perhaps you should have searched a little bit longer as this has been asked/answered a million times.
Well if the site search wasn't such a piece of crap then I would've found WHERE its been asked/answered a million times.
But it is so I didn't.
Originally posted by stealthdf:
 if it was that easy to do this type of stuff you wouldnt need to search cause we would all be doing it. and if it was really that easy then why dont we just throw our consoles away and just rig some drive to play backups. screw the corporations we can just make our own machine that will run their games.
Wtf?
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Homesick2
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 20:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol i think the search bar works quite well.. are you sure you're using the right one? here is the proper version...

HERE
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 09:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Homesick2:
 lol i think the search bar works quite well.. are you sure you're using the right one? here is the proper version...

HERE
Custom google search sucks.

anyways close this thread as all that going to happen is me getting flamed by tards because I don't know anything :/
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360h4x
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
With the new dash you can install games on your HDD but you need a disc to play em :( it's much easier on your lens now though, ftw.
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 12:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by 360h4x:
 With the new dash you can install games on your HDD but you need a disc to play em :( it's much easier on your lens now though, ftw.
I know this lol (Have fallout 3 installed to Hdd), I was asking if it was possible to use an external usb dvd drive (with flashed firmware on IT instead of the console) to play backuped games.

But it isn't.
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stealthdf
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 12:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sorry if i was a dick but my point was if there was such an easy alternative then it would not be hard to find info on it cause we would all be doing it instead of risking taking our consoles apart and ruining our own 360 drives.
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Dragnshdo
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 12:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by stealthdf:
 sorry if i was a dick but my point was if there was such an easy alternative then it would not be hard to find info on it cause we would all be doing it instead of risking taking our consoles apart and ruining our own 360 drives.
Not to be a dick my self, but I got your point LOUD and clear ;) xD

Yeah. I originally came to this site looking to mod my ps2, but now that I've got a 360... I want to mod it but at the same time I don't as I don't have the money to get another one if I should screw this one up.
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