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Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial
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kmssd
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16. October 2007 @ 14:49 |
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When the cd is in the drive I can see folders like C,E, Eeprom and some texts and one blank file type.
Press any key to continue, where's the any key, ahh there is no any key, ahhhhh!¡!
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AfterDawn Addict
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16. October 2007 @ 21:09 |
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Is there files within the C folder?
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kmssd
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17. October 2007 @ 09:14 |
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There are files in all the folders except the one labeled F, being that I didn't have a F folder on my stock xbox harddrive.
Press any key to continue, where's the any key, ahh there is no any key, ahhhhh!¡!
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kmssd
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17. October 2007 @ 13:55 |
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Ok I got this to work on a newer computer after a second try, cause I didn't notice the last selection was a Y not a complete Yes, and luckily I have 5 desktops if the one didn't work, but thanks for the help.
Press any key to continue, where's the any key, ahh there is no any key, ahhhhh!¡!
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MuzicLuva
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10. November 2007 @ 08:36 |
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hey everything works like it said in the tutorial....but when i put the hdd in it gives me error code 6 and tells me to contact support...plz help...
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10. November 2007 @ 10:54 |
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My tutorials explain everything!
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MuzicLuva
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10. November 2007 @ 13:52 |
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Originally posted by chunkhead:
My tutorials explain everything!
i went to your tutorial...and yeah i had a bad eeprom ...i undid everything using hdm and used the eeprom from udata, but the same thing still happened anyway...i think the problem is that i've never locked my hdd to begin with and its getting frustrating...when i go through the lock options it says completed successfuly then it gives me the drive status and it says security suport: yes security enabled: yes locked: no frozen: no...so i read and asked around and someone told me if that was happening then use dos tools (option 4 on hdm)...and before i could even put anything in it told me at the top that the drive was "unlockable"...so since it told me i couldn't lock it, i went to the xbox compatability chart and several people said it worked fine ...its a maxtor model#:6L200P0 ...so i have no idea what to do now
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10. November 2007 @ 20:23 |
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If you are getting an Error 6, the drive is locking quite fine, you simply have locked it with the wrong eeprom.
Use 'LiveInfo' to check the eeprom.bin serial number matches your sticker underneath your console!
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MuzicLuva
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12. November 2007 @ 10:44 |
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to give an update, u were right, it was a bad eeprom...i talked to a person on mirc and i guess the problem was the SID softmod...for some reason it placed some eeprom with a hddkey of all 0's in my e:/backup...when i told him i had installed a sid softmod on the orig hdd he told me to uninstall it and use the krayzie indure softmod on the orig hdd because sid was unstable or somethin...when i did a backup with the krayzie endure softmod, the eeprom created in e:/backup worked ....just a lil info for anyone else havin error #6...
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13. November 2007 @ 00:08 |
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My softmod tutorial uses SID 4.0 and it's as stable as hell!
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1234wtf
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15. November 2007 @ 13:27 |
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Hi guys..been doing a lot of reading on softmodding and putting a large HDD in the Xbox. SID 4.0 works wonderfully.
My problem is that when I try to lock the drive, the cd tells me that it cannot find eeprom.bin and therefore will not lock the drive. Ive read that you have to make sure it is in the right location....so to be safe, I copied it into every folder on the dvd before I burnt it and it still cannot find it. Can I type in the code manually? which is the right key to type in? I looked on the HDDinfo.txt from the Xbox and it has the following:
XboxCDKey 32 characters
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HDDKey 40 characters followed by 24 zeroes.
Which is the correct key to type in?
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1234wtf
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15. November 2007 @ 14:11 |
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Update: I went into the DOS part and used HDLOCK and put in my HDDKey without all the zeroes at the end. It said drive was successfully locked with that code so I put it in the Xbox and got an error 5. What does that mean?
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15. November 2007 @ 16:09 |
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Originally posted by 1234wtf:
Hi guys..been doing a lot of reading on softmodding and putting a large HDD in the Xbox... My problem is that when I try to lock the drive, the cd tells me that it cannot find eeprom.bin and therefore will not lock the drive. Ive read that you have to make sure it is in the right location....so to be safe, I copied it into every folder on the dvd before I burnt it and it still cannot find it...
I ran into a similar issue myself once, no matter how many discs I created, XBOXHDM couldn't find the EEPROM.BIN file. I solved it by copying the EEPROM.BIN to a floppy disk, i.e. A:\EEPROM.BIN . Use the DOS boot selection on the XBOXHDM cd you created, when it asks where the file is, point it to the floppy drive.
SlaeYer
Over The Modem, Down The Fiber, Through The Switch, Nuttin' But Net!
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15. November 2007 @ 20:30 |
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@ 1234wtf
Ouch!!! You need to have more patience and wait for someone to help you!
You have now locked you code with a made up eeprom! This will almost render the drive completely useless!
If you can, use the same code you used to unlock the drive again, if not consult my tutorials for further unlocking help!
As for the CD not finding the eeprom, the answer was very simple!
The correct filename is 'eeprom.bin'. The CD CANNOT find 'EEPROM.BIN'
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1234wtf
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15. November 2007 @ 20:57 |
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Makes me glad I have the receipt. I can take drives back as many times as needed to get this done. I just wish I didnt have to drive 25 miles 1 way to do it.
So I went out and exchanged the 2nd western digital for a Maxtor Model# STM3200820A 200 GB hard drive. Came home, Opened the package, put the receipt away fearing I would need it yet again and tried once again to set up the drive. This time, I got the following message when I typed in lockhd -a
"Drive on Primary Master is frozen. Cannot change the security status of a frozen drive. Try to disable automatic detection on the primary IDE channel in your PC BIOS and reboot."
wtf??
I checked 3 compatibility charts before selecting this drive and all 3 say I can lock the drive with no trouble. Why in the hell am I having so much trouble?
and this time, before I did anything, I checked all the files on the CD and eeprom.bin was in fact lowercase. I even backed it up to the root of a floppy disk, but never got that far due to the error above.
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Craiggg
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21. November 2007 @ 13:47 |
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Yo 1234wtf try this
1.Start your computer with no drive on the pri master ide cable.
2.Let the floppy boot til its says (a:\) now plug yor harddrive to the ide cable(start with powercord then the ide) and run ATAPWD.
It should now not be frozen .
3.Exit ATAPWD and type unlockx it should say lockable and unlocked then run your desired lock program. for you it mybe lock -a.
If you manually lock your drive you may have to restart the computer for it to read that its unlocked, probally the same for lock -a
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jeezy103
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22. November 2007 @ 06:00 |
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so how do i run a game/program off my pc again???............from xbox ofcourse (sheeesh) ;-)
i've got nothing in particular going on, but it can't hurt knowing how..
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linuxfrek
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29. November 2007 @ 07:11 |
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I have a similar question. Suppose you take the hard-drive from a softmodded xbox, and put it in an xbox which has not been softmodded. Would it work?
Originally posted by ps22man:
ok, you guys r the pros at this stuff. now i wanna softmod my xbox and intend to load a hugge hard drive in it like 180 gb's dont worry about the 137 gb thing. But could i just make a xbox ready hard disk and then swap the drives and i have a softmodded xbox. Like buy a new hard drive and instead of moddign ym xbox just set up the hard drive and open up the xbox and swap the drives with the one i just made and it'll work
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29. November 2007 @ 12:49 |
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Originally posted by linuxfrek:
I have a similar question. Suppose you take the hard-drive from a softmodded xbox, and put it in an xbox which has not been softmodded. Would it work?
No... the eeprom is different for each xbox. That difference alone will prevent the xbox from unlocking the drive. You may softmod the xbox and obtain the eeprom.bin and use that to change the lockcode on the drive first and then it would theoretically work as that's really the only difference between different xboxes. The software is the same!
Over The Modem, Down The Fiber, Through The Switch, Nuttin' But Net!
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linuxfrek
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3. December 2007 @ 06:16 |
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It sounds like it would be easier to just mod the new one from the beginning. Thanks for letting me know.
Originally posted by slaeyer:
Originally posted by linuxfrek:
I have a similar question. Suppose you take the hard-drive from a softmodded xbox, and put it in an xbox which has not been softmodded. Would it work?
No... the eeprom is different for each xbox. That difference alone will prevent the xbox from unlocking the drive. You may softmod the xbox and obtain the eeprom.bin and use that to change the lockcode on the drive first and then it would theoretically work as that's really the only difference between different xboxes. The software is the same!
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Sci4711
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3. December 2007 @ 09:20 |
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Could this be done on a XBOX harddrive
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Sci4711
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3. December 2007 @ 09:25 |
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Could this be done with a xbox harddrive?
Originally posted by jonbtrini:
Here's the second of my tutorials...perhaps this could be stickied as well?
Just follow these instructions, and using this method you will not need to do anything to your original hard drive which means that if anything does go wrong you will still have an xbox.
Necessary Equipment:
1) xboxhdm 1.9 (Found at xbins? in the directory: /XBOX/Operating Systems/linux/distributions)
2) Torx 10 And Torx 20 Screwdrivers - To Open XBOX
3) A Spare/Blank PC Hardrive
4) FTP Program (AceFTP, SmartFTP etc.)
5) A blank CD-R/W and A CD Burner
Steps:
1. On your xbox's evox dashboard go to system utils and select backup. While your waiting for that to finish, extract all files in xboxhdm 1.9 to your PC'S hard drive and open up the folder 'linux'. In that folder is a folder called 'eeprom'. Once the backup is complete, on your PC run the desired FTP program and access your xbox. Go to E:\ backup_linux\ and download a file called 'eeprom.bin' to the xboxhdm\linux\eeprom folder of on your PC?s hard drive. Then go to the root of your xbox and download the full folders of C:\ and E:\ to your PC's hard drive to the xboxhdm\linux folder and overwrite the ones already there.
2. Now in the root of xboxhdm is a file named 'make-iso-win'. You must run make-iso-win and wait for it to finish once it has finished. Now burn the .iso which was created to a blank cd-r/w using nero or alcohol, dvddecrypter etc. When burning is finished shutdown pc.
3. Take out all other hard drives and put in the hard drive you wish to make an xbox hard drive and set it to be the primary master. Boot up your PC and as it is loading press whatever button to enter your BIOS setup and set your PC to boot from CD. Now reset your PC and put the cd-r/w with the .iso you created on it, in the cd/dvd drive. You should be given a list of options.
4. Choose Option 1 (by typing ?1?) and press enter to boot VGA console with xbox-drive utilities (default). Type ?xboxhd? when it asks you for a login. Another list of options will show up, choose option 1 again (the one that says ?Build a new Xbox HD from scratch?) and it will begin to format and write the partition table etc. If you put your C:\ and E:\ onto the CD then when it asks you about them type yes and when it asks you if you would like an F select yes, it is all pretty self explanatory. Now quit and reboot your PC. If this worked you now have a brand new nearly-usable xbox hard drive.
5. Now for locking the hard drive. When it boot from the cd again, this time type ?3? and hit enter to boot linux with locking/unlocking utilities. Next, type in ?lockhd -a?. It will now search for the eeprom on the CD and will automatically lock the hard drive. Now turn off the PC and take out the hard drive when it has finished locking.
Now put it back in your Xbox and load up and have fun!
If you can't figure out how to burn the cd properly in Nero or whatever, don't worry, i NEVER do it properly lol, so just use the burn feature in DVD Decrypter and it'll burn the linux.iso in the proper bootable format for you to use it. Also, if your HD is OVER 137 gigs, you'll need to format the remaining space with UnleashX for it to be available once you're finished the upgrade.
Edit - To save some people from buying a harddrive that isn't lockable and therefore wasting their money, please visit this link for a list of lockable and therefore Xbox compatible harddrives - http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/modules.php?...dDrives
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3. December 2007 @ 20:47 |
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Ehh...yeah! That's the whole point!???
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Demon1337
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5. December 2007 @ 09:08 |
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IF i were to just FTP into my xbox without any extra "GEAR" and then send that info into a new fresh HDD would that possibly work? or does it have to be locked?
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5. December 2007 @ 21:04 |
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Has to be locked! I have explained this in your other thread!
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