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Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial
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Kevenater
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24. March 2007 @ 22:01 |
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I did that, I tried every combination...lockhd-a, lockhd, -a,lockhda etc....it just says "not a valid command"....thanks for trying though. maybe somebody else will come along that has had this same problem..thanks
Keven
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adfrog10
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3. April 2007 @ 10:59 |
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my xbox will not power up anymore if i buy a used xbox can i swap out the hard drives and just use the one i bought
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3. April 2007 @ 14:23 |
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Originally posted by Kevenater:
I did that, I tried every combination...lockhd-a, lockhd, -a,lockhda etc....it just says "not a valid command"....thanks for trying though. maybe somebody else will come along that has had this same problem..thanks
try burning the dvd+ disk slower even slowest that way the data reads you need the eeprom and u can use a upper case or lower case e i used both and sometimes one disk works and one dont. thats what i do when i get that problem.
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3. April 2007 @ 14:25 |
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Originally posted by adfrog10:
my xbox will not power up anymore if i buy a used xbox can i swap out the hard drives and just use the one i bought
you can't swap hard drives because each eeprom matches different motherboards. so take out the motherboard and hard drive to swap. if thats your need. but, i would thing that would be a waste of time considering you bought a new xbox or a extra one. it would be too much work
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Poseidon7
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8. April 2007 @ 11:31 |
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hi,
I have two xbox, one with modchip and 120 gb hd, and the other one with SID 3.0 softmod and the original hd. First i try to swap the discs but it doesnt work, later... after many attempts and configuration changes :-(... i decide to format my 120 gb, and left it like a new one.. then i follow the tutorial to upgrade the hd, ( boot with a linux image, creating partitions, formating, copying the c: and e: partition from the sofmod xbox disc, and run lockhd -a) all seen to be ok.. but the softmod xbox doesnt start, without running the lockhd -a i just got the microsoft error 5 screen and if i ran the lockhd -a i got the microsoft error 6 screen
Im using the eeprom from the sofmod Xbox. After run the lockhd -a it says that the command was completed succesfully but in the rest of the information i received this values : Security -> "Yes",
Lock -> "No". (i dont remember exactly the field names, but are some of the fields in the report showed after run lockhd -a). and if i run unlockhd -a only the security field changes to "No"
what can i do?
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8. April 2007 @ 17:09 |
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Originally posted by Poseidon7:
hi,
I have two xbox, one with modchip and 120 gb hd, and the other one with SID 3.0 softmod and the original hd. First i try to swap the discs but it doesnt work, later... after many attempts and configuration changes :-(... i decide to format my 120 gb, and left it like a new one.. then i follow the tutorial to upgrade the hd, ( boot with a linux image, creating partitions, formating, copying the c: and e: partition from the sofmod xbox disc, and run lockhd -a) all seen to be ok.. but the softmod xbox doesn't start, without running the lockhd -a i just got the m$ error 5 screen and if i ran the lockhd -a i got the m$ error 6 screen
Im using the eeprom from the sofmod Xbox. After run the lockhd -a it says that the command was completed succesfully but in the rest of the information i received this values : Security -> "Yes",
Lock -> "No". (i dont remember exactly the field names, but are some of the fields in the report showed after run lockhd -a). and if i run unlockhd -a only the security field changes to "No"
what can i do?
how fast did you burn the cd and what type of cd did you use
i used a dvdplus and i burned my cd at 6speed(slowest i can go)
after that i set my c spot up with the softmod already installed and then e with saves and addded apps to f
in dos i hooked up the new hd as master and let the cd do what it needed to format,install, then lock. after that i set the hd as (cs) and not master anymore then i turned on the xbox and everything took for me. i am useing a 180 gig hd and i have set up f and g drives
don't know if this helps but thats wut i did
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Poseidon7
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9. April 2007 @ 07:50 |
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Originally posted by Poseidon7:
hi,
I have two xbox, one with modchip and 120 gb hd, and the other one with SID 3.0 softmod and the original hd. First i try to swap the discs but it doesnt work, later... after many attempts and configuration changes :-(... i decide to format my 120 gb, and left it like a new one.. then i follow the tutorial to upgrade the hd, ( boot with a linux image, creating partitions, formating, copying the c: and e: partition from the sofmod xbox disc, and run lockhd -a) all seen to be ok.. but the softmod xbox doesn't start, without running the lockhd -a i just got the m$ error 5 screen and if i ran the lockhd -a i got the m$ error 6 screen
Im using the eeprom from the sofmod Xbox. After run the lockhd -a it says that the command was completed succesfully but in the rest of the information i received this values : Security -> "Yes",
Lock -> "No". (i dont remember exactly the field names, but are some of the fields in the report showed after run lockhd -a). and if i run unlockhd -a only the security field changes to "No"
what can i do?
how fast did you burn the cd and what type of cd did you use
i used a dvdplus and i burned my cd at 6speed(slowest i can go)
after that i set my c spot up with the softmod already installed and then e with saves and addded apps to f
in dos i hooked up the new hd as master and let the cd do what it needed to format,install, then lock. after that i set the hd as (cs) and not master anymore then i turned on the xbox and everything took for me. i am useing a 180 gig hd and i have set up f and g drives
don't know if this helps but thats wut i did
hi, thanks for your help, but i did all the things you said and followed the tutorial but my xbox still doesnt start.. :-(
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manfuq
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26. April 2007 @ 09:02 |
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Well I have a question, I have my softmod installed on my new hd, its a 75 gig western digital and i looked it up on the hard drive compatibility, its like number 3 on the list, and i have it all ready and its on here, but the thing's that it says that it is a 6 gig hard drive instead of a 75. something wrong?
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26. April 2007 @ 09:54 |
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Originally posted by manfuq:
Well I have a question, I have my softmod installed on my new hd, its a 75 gig western digital and i looked it up on the hard drive compatibility, its like number 3 on the list, and i have it all ready and its on here, but the thing's that it says that it is a 6 gig hard drive instead of a 75. something wrong?
You likely need to format your F partition. A quick google search brings the following info: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xbo...G=Google+Search
Hope this helps!
Over The Modem, Down The Fiber, Through The Switch, Nuttin' But Net!
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camt9d
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29. April 2007 @ 17:39 |
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is there a tutorial on how to install a larger harddrive with unleashx instead of evox?
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Redemp
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30. April 2007 @ 13:27 |
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i need help im trying to lock the hard drive and i keep getting this message
"Drive on Primary Master is frozen.. cannot change security status of a frozen drive!.. try to disable "automatic detection" on the primary ide channel in your PC Bios and reboot"
i been searching and reading alot i tried almost everything i did try to do it on a 2nd pc and still the same thing the closest thing in the bios settings i found was ''use automatic mode''i disable it and it didnt change anything,
i been on this issue for days still the hdd wont lock please can anyone help me with this problem??
im using a emachines pc by the way and the hdd im using is a Seagate 160 GB Model St3160021A
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moocow666
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30. April 2007 @ 13:40 |
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you need evox so just do what i did put evox in you apps folder and open it
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30. April 2007 @ 14:05 |
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Originally posted by Redemp:
i need help im trying to lock the hard drive and i keep getting this message
"Drive on Primary Master is frozen.. cannot change security status of a frozen drive!.. try to disable "automatic detection" on the primary ide channel in your PC Bios and reboot"
i been searching and reading alot i tried almost everything i did try to do it on a 2nd pc and still the same thing the closest thing in the bios settings i found was ''use automatic mode''i disable it and it didnt change anything,
i been on this issue for days still the hdd wont lock please can anyone help me with this problem??
im using a emachines pc by the way and the hdd im using is a Seagate 160 GB Model St3160021A
did you check to see if the hard drive is lockable
i never had that problem so thats the only idea i can think of as long as u get a mod chip you really dont need to worry about locking your hd inless your going on xbl
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Redemp
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30. April 2007 @ 14:42 |
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did you check to see if the hard drive is lockable
i never had that problem so thats the only idea i can think of as long as u get a mod chip you really dont need to worry about locking your hd inless your going on xbl
yeah i check and it is lockable well i softmodded my xbox and about xbox live im not worry about it at all so is a modchip required?? forgive me for the noob question lol
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5. May 2007 @ 13:01 |
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yeah i check and it is lockable well i softmodded my xbox and about xbox live im not worry about it at all so is a modchip required?? forgive me for the noob question lol[/quote]
yeah just get the chip and then after that you should be able to start restoreing the xbox read about the chips b4 you pick one you get and make sure it matches the version of xbox you have. also i would make sure that it has sometype of FTP access so you can start putting your files in the hd incase you dont have any files on the hd to begin with
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15. May 2007 @ 10:21 |
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I have an eeprom for a xbox and the old drive died last night, how do I use xboxhdm to get the eeprom file from a floppy disk? I got a dvd for a different xbox and the files are just the same and all I want to do is change the eeprom to the hard drive lock so the drive works in the busted xbox.
(if that makes sense)
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deaconf19
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15. May 2007 @ 20:32 |
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my steps. laoded the softmod with NUDURE. It makes you back up the system. once done i copied from the xbox the following diretories
/e/backups/eeprom/backup/eeprom.bin inot the directory on my pc xboxhdm/linux/eeprom
then i copied over the c: and e: from my xbox into xboxhdm\linux
then i created the .iso burned it.
put the new hd into the computer it formatted and loaded everything. I locked it just fine. but when i put it into my xbox it loads up and stays at the XBOX splash screen then goes to error 13. any ideas?
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deaconf19
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15. May 2007 @ 22:41 |
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I unlocked my original xbox hard drive with the unlock -a with xboxhd and it worked fine so that leads me to believe the eeprom that i copied to the cd is working since it unlocked the original. but i did notice the hard drive password key was different from the new hard drive key. do they need to be the same?
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16. May 2007 @ 04:15 |
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I had a similar problem, to get around it I went in the bios and detected the drive, then using the XBOXHDM disk I deleted the FATX table then rebuilt the xbox drive from scratch, this not only unfroze the drive but it put the proper key on the xbox drive ^_^
NOTE-: you may need to use a different pc to get this trick to work.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. May 2007 @ 04:16
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deaconf19
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16. May 2007 @ 17:17 |
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When i boot up the pc it detects the drive.
The weird thing is when it locks the new hard drive from the eeprom i get a different password hd key compared to the original.
So after it says that it is secure but not locked i reboot go into dos mode and run ATAPWD and it says it is locked when it is not. so I reboot unlock it through linux. then i lock it by entering the password from the original hard and place it in the xbox and i went from error 13 to error 6 which means it can not unlock the new hard drive. How can you tell if you can not lock a hard drive?
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deaconf19
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16. May 2007 @ 18:07 |
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This is what i got when i ran lockhd -a
HDD Serial VNC402A4DLT6PG
HDD MODEL IC35L080AVVA07-0
HDD Key *****************
HDD Password from eeprom **************
ready to attempt locking
are you sure you want to continue? y
Master password XBOXSCENE
command completed successfully
HDD Serial VNC402A4DLT6PG
HDD firmware VA40A521
HDD MODEL IC35L080AVVA07-0
HDD Key *****************
HDD Password from eeprom **************
security supported yes
security enabled yes
security locked no
secuirty frozen no
security count exp np
This is what i get eveyrtime. I am assuming this drive can not be locked. I will try a different system and go from there.
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17. May 2007 @ 19:07 |
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I get that every time but when I place it in the xobx it is locked for some reason.
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29. May 2007 @ 07:49 |
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Hi there,
i'm having problems following this tutorial i dont know whether i just burned the disc on too fast of a speed or what but it gives me the image when booting the computer up and when i press 1 to boot VGA Console with Xbox-Drive Utilities it just reboots my computer and brings me back to the opening screen again. all options do this for me, i dont know what is wrong?
plz help thank you
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dray420
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30. May 2007 @ 12:43 |
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im using UnleashedX on my softmodded Box. I made the XboxHDM boot disc and everything works fine. I build it from scratch and everything goes smoothly. When i type the "reboot" command it wont reboot. right after it says flushing drives it goes nuts. i turn the power off and boot the disc up again and when i try to lock it with lockhd -a it says are you sure i say yes and it says aborting. Ive locked it with other programs(DOS locking tools) but it won't boot in my xbox(error 6) then it wont let me unlock the drive at all. this is happened with 2 different WD hard drives ive used( each were said to be compatible) i can unlock the drives using HDD unlock wizard but it cost a fee. Does anyone know why or what i can do to solve this problem???
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backman23
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31. May 2007 @ 03:47 |
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Here is what I did: I used xboxhdm 1.9 to make a boot disk I followed all the steps correctly and I've repeated them numerous times trying to fix my problem. I chose to make the xbox hd from scratch.
I installed all my files and locked my hdd at the end with the hdlock -a command. I plugged it into my xbox and I get an error 06 which is the xbox not being able to unlock the hdd.
I used FlashFXP for the FTP and my dashboard is unleashx. I think the reason is that I am copying the shadow files instead of the real files. How do I get around this? I have been searching for days with no resultsor confusing ones at the very least.
I found this as well but I have no idea how to do the mount at all (I don't even know if it means from xbox or PC or whether to unlock it with configmagic final) I'm guessin on the computer
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There is a shadow partition, So unlock the factory drive (you should already have the eeprom.bin ).
Mount /dev/hda50 (drive E) to /mnt and /dev/hda51 (drive C) to /c. And then: tar cf /mnt/actualc.tar /c/* After a while it creates a copy of the files on drive E, in a single archive.
Lock the drive and put it back on xbox.
Take new hard drive (previously prepared) and mount /dev/hda50 (drive E) to /mnt, /dev/hda51 to /c
FTP to the Xbox and retrieve from drive E "actualc.tar"
Decompress (tar xvf actualc.tar) and place the files in the proper partition
lock the drive, swap old for new, and your're done it should work fine!
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