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Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial
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mattybass
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9. January 2007 @ 16:44 |
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this happened to me when i added a bigger hdd some weeks ago. you'll have to remod the xbox. It shouldn't be too hard now that you've done it before. Just redo it with Krayzie's NDure
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9. January 2007 @ 20:56 |
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Originally posted by kylewc:
a while ago i softmodded my xbox with no problems. but now think its about time i did the large Hdd mod too. so i got a drive, followed all the instructions as above, made the new drive copying all the c and e drives. when i start up the disc it loads into the old ms dash. . .
This is not uncommon as EvoX uses a shadow C partition. Remod the xbox and all should be well.
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kylewc
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10. January 2007 @ 01:24 |
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thanks for the replies.
i still have the cd i made to softmod it orginally (so no files in the c, e and eeprom drive folders). can that one be used, or do i have to use one that has the c and e drives copied from my current xbox 8gb softmodded hdd?
also after i do the hotswap (using the XboxHDM), i enter the VGA console (option 1), then type 'softmod', then choose option 2 (NK Patcher), wait for 15 mins or so then done. does this sound correct? it was a long time since i did it last!
thanks again guys!
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kylewc
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10. January 2007 @ 04:36 |
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sorry for the double post but i'm having some serious issues trying to re-soft mod it! was getting all sorts of disc errors.
when you say soft mod it again, i understand that as the hotswap procedure, am i right?
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10. January 2007 @ 15:47 |
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Originally posted by kylewc:
sorry for the double post but i'm having some serious issues trying to re-soft mod it! was getting all sorts of disc errors.
when you say soft mod it again, i understand that as the hotswap procedure, am i right?
Use whichever method works for you.
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witit
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10. January 2007 @ 21:02 |
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i follow the instruction i got every thing right but one thing is that my 30gb HD that i install has only 4,ooo Mb in the softmoded xbox it should bee more but i dunt so so could some one help me
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mattybass
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11. January 2007 @ 09:52 |
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Originally posted by kylewc:
sorry for the double post but i'm having some serious issues trying to re-soft mod it! was getting all sorts of disc errors.
when you say soft mod it again, i understand that as the hotswap procedure, am i right?
I meant re soft mod the xbox, not use the boot disk on the hard drive in your computer.
I meant flash your bios using Krayzie's NDure. One of the Gamesave exploits.
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fatlip180
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14. January 2007 @ 13:56 |
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Im having a problem here - i followed the tutorial from page 1 on a wd 2000 hdd - followed throught to the end - the hdd rebuilt fine. Now i have locked the hdd and put in my xbox - im getting the green screen 'service screen' with error code 13 in the top left - does anybody know where ive gone wrong?
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fatlip180
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14. January 2007 @ 14:31 |
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Well i have got a little further - the problem was that when i was copying files from my c:\ on my xbox - all the files copies except for the .xbe - so therefore the xbox cant read a dashboard - hence the '13' error code - therefore how do i get the files to copy across? i tried just using a drag and drop through windows network places and also through FlashFXP and cant get any joy :(
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dmdinnd
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15. January 2007 @ 12:47 |
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Help, I'm a newbie and followed the instructions here to a T. I am getting service error code 21 on the new hard drive. ST3160812A Seagate 160GB drive. I have not had any problems locking it. I ftp'd all of my C and E drives to the PC and searched for all eeprom.bin files. There were 3 and they all looked exactly the same when examinging the special characters in Notepad. I have also used Evox to backup the eeprom.bin and I have tried that one as well on my CD image to no avail. Anyone have any ideas where to look or what to try?
I am currently trying to Clone the old drive to the new drive to see if that makes any difference, but I am not certain the cloning it will give me the new larger partitions plus it seems to be taking forever.
Any help would be much appreciated. I was given this softmodded xbox as a gift, so don't know anything about how it was softmodded.
Might it be a requirement to softmod it again?
I've been reading this forumn for quite sometime and haven't found much for solutions around the Error 21. I apologize if I missed something simple.
Thanks!
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15. January 2007 @ 14:51 |
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Originally posted by dmdinnd:
Help, I'm a newbie and followed the instructions here to a T. I am getting service error code 21 on the new hard drive. ST3160812A Seagate 160GB drive. I have not had any problems locking it. I ftp'd all of my C and E drives to the PC and searched for all eeprom.bin files. There were 3 and they all looked exactly the same when examinging the special characters in Notepad. I have also used Evox to backup the eeprom.bin and I have tried that one as well on my CD image to no avail. Anyone have any ideas where to look or what to try?
I am currently trying to Clone the old drive to the new drive to see if that makes any difference, but I am not certain the cloning it will give me the new larger partitions plus it seems to be taking forever.
Any help would be much appreciated. I was given this softmodded xbox as a gift, so don't know anything about how it was softmodded.
Might it be a requirement to softmod it again?
I've been reading this forumn for quite sometime and haven't found much for solutions around the Error 21. I apologize if I missed something simple.
Thanks!
Error codes are here! Hope this helps
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TFIZ
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21. January 2007 @ 13:16 |
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I did everything it says and formated it and that work fine, but when I went to lock it I typed 3, it said it was loading but then it just went to a black screen and its been there for 30 mins. I checked and the hardrive is lockable
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dalbert89
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21. January 2007 @ 15:29 |
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I just made a 400GB Samsung hard drive this week, model number HD400LD. Absolutley amazing, so much space!!!. I grabbed it for less than £80 delivered from savastore.com and very happy. Its max temp after a couple hours use is approx 33 - 37C. Fan only on 30% and have not made any hardware modifications. Transfer speeds are high as well. Remember that with any partition bigger than 256gb (or 255gb) will need a 32k clusters format or your games will play terrible.
I have made about 5 hard drives with xboxhdm, manufacturers Maxtor to Seagate, and the Samsung HD400LD is the most stable I have used. Its even had some games work on it that did not with the previous drives. Used partioner program to make one big F partition with about 370gb+ on it, nothing in G partition.
If anyone needs any software/tools/dashboards etc. then please send me a message.
A little tip is to use the DOS tools for locking as well. They have never let let me down so far, touch wood.
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Daak
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23. January 2007 @ 13:06 |
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Hi, where is everyone getting xboxhdm 1.9 from? I can't remember where I got mine but there is NO linux folder and there is no eeprom file floating around in the zip file. I have my xbox's C and D folders on my PC ready to go. I also have the eeprom off my xbox and the hdd key text file on my PC and ready to go. Where do I get xboxhdm 1.9 that pertains to this tutorial? Thanks.
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23. January 2007 @ 16:04 |
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Originally posted by Daak:
Hi, where is everyone getting xboxhdm 1.9 from? I can't remember where I got mine but there is NO linux folder and there is no eeprom file floating around in the zip file. I have my xbox's C and D folders on my PC ready to go. I also have the eeprom off my xbox and the hdd key text file on my PC and ready to go. Where do I get xboxhdm 1.9 that pertains to this tutorial? Thanks.
All the files referenced in this thread as well as many other tuts are found from xbins. Search google for "xbins login" w/o the quotes and follow the directions to get the files.
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andyloc
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24. January 2007 @ 14:58 |
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hi there
I have done a softmod on my Xbox ok.
I now want to upgrade the HDD, does this tutorial still work ok?
http://www.how2xbox.com/site/XBOX/Advanc...04/Default.aspx
I have just ordered a 80Gb HDD for extra space
after doing this do you have to softmod the Xbox again, and then everything is done?
thanks
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andyloc
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24. January 2007 @ 15:01 |
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should have mentioned I softmodded using Splinter cell.
I just followed the instructions on the installer to get the Evo X dash.
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SProdigy
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24. January 2007 @ 16:03 |
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Hi guys. I'm in a bit of a quagmire. I used this method roughly 6 months ago to upgrade to a 120gb Seagate drive. Everything went smooth as planned. Just the other day I turned on my Xbox and got the "Error Code 07 - Service Needed" screen. I pulled my 120gb drive out and imaged it again using XboxHDM, and tried once more to no avail.
I have 3 of these drives, and tried another one, using all the same methods and still get the 07 Error Screen. However, I popped in the original Xbox WD 10gb drive and the system boots into UnleashX with no problem.
I can hear/feel the WD drive power on, however, I cannot with the Seagate drives. I've run diagnostics tests on both Seagate drives and they pass with no issue. Has anyone else run into a problem like this? I've seen that "07" could be related to the power supply, but why would the stock drive power up and not any of the others?
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24. January 2007 @ 17:08 |
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Originally posted by andyloc:
hi there
I have done a softmod on my Xbox ok.
I now want to upgrade the HDD, does this tutorial still work ok?
http://www.how2xbox.com/site/XBOX/Advanc...04/Default.aspx
I have just ordered a 80Gb HDD for extra space
after doing this do you have to softmod the Xbox again, and then everything is done?
thanks
Should be fine... I'm still using these steps myself!
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24. January 2007 @ 17:11 |
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Originally posted by SProdigy:
Hi guys. I'm in a bit of a quagmire. I used this method roughly 6 months ago to upgrade to a 120gb Seagate drive. Everything went smooth as planned. Just the other day I turned on my Xbox and got the "Error Code 07 - Service Needed" screen. I pulled my 120gb drive out and imaged it again using XboxHDM, and tried once more to no avail.
I have 3 of these drives, and tried another one, using all the same methods and still get the 07 Error Screen. However, I popped in the original Xbox WD 10gb drive and the system boots into UnleashX with no problem.
I can hear/feel the WD drive power on, however, I cannot with the Seagate drives. I've run diagnostics tests on both Seagate drives and they pass with no issue. Has anyone else run into a problem like this? I've seen that "07" could be related to the power supply, but why would the stock drive power up and not any of the others?
Error code 7 is - kernel - HDD timeout. Perhaps the reason it won't work is that higher capacity drives require more power than the stock drive needs.... just a thought
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24. January 2007 @ 18:05 |
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im useing a 180 hard drive in my xbox with a modchip i dont have any problems but i would like to understand better the usesage of makeing a bigger hard drive for a softmod xbox for a friend of mine
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24. January 2007 @ 21:26 |
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Originally posted by Th3Gam3:
im useing a 180 hard drive in my xbox with a modchip i dont have any problems but i would like to understand better the usesage of makeing a bigger hard drive for a softmod xbox for a friend of mine
While long, this thread actually answers many questions. I suggest you read it start to finish. You will learn much from it! My personal favorite about the usage of this software is the ability for me to make a new drive of any size for my xbox using the cd I created. Should my drive fail for any reason, I can make a new drive or, alternatively, I can recreate the original drive and sell my xbox in an unmodded state!
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SProdigy
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25. January 2007 @ 02:21 |
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Thanks for the quick reply Slaeyer, but I had the 120gb drive working fine for at least 6 months. I can't figure out why it would crap out on ANY of my 120gb drives out of nowhere. Any good place to find a spare PSU or should I just try a new system? I'm not that concerned, considering I can still run all of my apps on the stock drive. I'm just missing out on ripping games and storing larger roms on the 120gb drive.
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Daak
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25. January 2007 @ 08:29 |
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I'm having problems getting this this tutorial to work. The only difference I know of is that I took all the save folders out of UDATA to bring the size of the ISO down for burning - does the ISO need anything in there? I created the ISO but when I go to run it, its really buggy with errors and many reboots. I'm trying different bios settings though. I finally got it to work and after it asked if I wanted to create a fatx partition, it froze up again with "y" going down the screen. Then I finally got it to work again and when it was creating C and E drives it was REALLY slow - it took about 2 hours. Even with a 16x cd-rom drive it shouldn?t take that long. It finally finished and I locked the drive. When I installed it in the Xbox I got different errors depending on the jumper setting but none of those setting worked after trying them all.
The hard disk I'm using used to have the NTFS system before I supposedly (the formatting seemed too fast to really have done anything) reformatted with FATx - does that matter?
I'm out of ideas beyond that.
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SProdigy
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25. January 2007 @ 08:44 |
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From my experience, make sure that your Optical Drive (CD-ROM) is on the IDE1 channel and that your hard drive is on IDE2 when connected to your PC. If they are flipped, you can still boot from the CD, however, I know firsthand that it will just "fly" through the process. You should get several prompts for "yes"
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