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Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial
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lazytruck
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1. April 2008 @ 09:07 |
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or mebbe what is a better question is how do i replace my primary and master with the xbox and dvd drive in primary slave
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1. April 2008 @ 15:23 |
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yes, you have to disconnect your drives or it kinda gets the software confused =(
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lazytruck
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1. April 2008 @ 18:10 |
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im saying how after i open it up
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1. April 2008 @ 20:46 |
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oooooOOOooh kaaaaaay 0_o can you say "screw driver"???
thats how most people open their pc cases -_¬
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lazytruck
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1. April 2008 @ 21:14 |
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ok, here are some pics, i cannot plug in an external hd to the plug for those wires!!! that is impossible!!! how am i supposed to do that? i can't use the external hd to replace the C drive, what the heck?!?!
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lazytruck
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1. April 2008 @ 21:18 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. July 2008 @ 05:37
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lazytruck
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1. April 2008 @ 21:25 |
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i just don't know how to hook up that drive to that wire, that's impossible!! do i need an internal kind of drive?
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superkid1
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2. April 2008 @ 01:30 |
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I don?t want to interrupt but I have a problem with my hd
I accidently unlocked my hd (using an xbox bootable cd) and i now get error 5, I tried locking it with programs in windows with no luck and restoring a previous image of my hd...now i think it became corrupt. So I have an official xbox hd that will not load in the xbox and it will not recognize in windows. I just want to get my xbox back to the softmodded state it use to be in, now I can?t do crap. I backed up my eeprom and key awhile back, is there any software that will load up the xbox without the error 5? Or anyway to format a bran new hd from a pc and load my backups (the hd key) to a new drive without using the xbox? Many thanks
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2. April 2008 @ 06:46 |
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your gonna have to remove the drive from that case and install it in to your pc the same way as the one thats in there now but remember to remove the cables from the one installed in there aready, screws may be hiden under stickers, if it's one of them weird type screws (eg star or hex) then you could try a pc shop to unscrew them and replace them with normal screws.
and make your pictures smaller please, I'm not blind
Originally posted by lazytruck:
ok, here are some pics, i cannot plug in an external hd to the plug for those wires!!! that is impossible!!! how am i supposed to do that? i can't use the external hd to replace the C drive, what the heck?!?!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. July 2008 @ 05:38
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lazytruck
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2. April 2008 @ 15:12 |
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i really appriciate it. i only have two questions left now....how do i open it up without any screws, do i pop it open? and how do i get the new hd connected to my xbox? will i have to carry it around everywhere with a plug hanging out?
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2. April 2008 @ 16:02 |
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if there is no screws it's clicked together so pop it open and the hard drive will fit where the current xbox drive fits
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2. April 2008 @ 23:51 |
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Originally posted by superkid1:
I don?t want to interrupt but I have a problem with my hd
I accidently unlocked my hd (using an xbox bootable cd) and i now get error 5, I tried locking it with programs in windows with no luck and restoring a previous image of my hd...now i think it became corrupt. So I have an official xbox hd that will not load in the xbox and it will not recognize in windows. I just want to get my xbox back to the softmodded state it use to be in, now I can?t do crap. I backed up my eeprom and key awhile back, is there any software that will load up the xbox without the error 5? Or anyway to format a bran new hd from a pc and load my backups (the hd key) to a new drive without using the xbox? Many thanks
It sounds like you simply need to relock your HD using your eeprom.bin. Using the xboxhdm software documented in this very long thread, you will be able to restore a full hd image from backup & relock your existing or upgrade hd.
Over The Modem, Down The Fiber, Through The Switch, Nuttin' But Net!
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3. April 2008 @ 10:21 |
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lazytruck - let us know if it works please
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tfamorim
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4. April 2008 @ 10:57 |
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Hello there!
Decided to register here so I could ask some questions.
First of all, I sofmodded my Xbox using Krazie's Softmod. I want to upgrade the HDD, but I'm kinda scared of screwing the hdd .
I'm gonna use XBOXHDM to add the new hdd to the xbox but i cant create the ISO because it's over 800mb, and I can't burn it to a CD.
This is what I have in my C Drive:
And this is what I have on the E drive:
Inside the dashboard folder I have this:
And of course the shadowc folder has the shadowc.img that is 500mb big!
How can I resolve this? Can I delete shadowc.img?
Please help me!
Thanks guys!
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tweak420
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4. April 2008 @ 22:24 |
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I'm having a bit of trouble.
I cloned my hard drive; And then rebooted. Unplugged the hard drive after the bios was loaded, I put the hard drive back in. And the hard drive i'm using is COMPATABLE. It's a maxtor model.
I used the ORIGINAL xbox (8gb stock) to a 40 GB.
I successfully locked the drive, but I keep getting error 6.
Please help me.
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jgdrag
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5. April 2008 @ 00:11 |
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Where did you get your eeprom file from? E Backup? did you backup your eeprom file before you copied it to xboxhlm?
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jgdrag
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5. April 2008 @ 00:26 |
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Originally posted by tfamorim:
Hello there!
Decided to register here so I could ask some questions.
First of all, I sofmodded my Xbox using Krazie's Softmod. I want to upgrade the HDD, but I'm kinda scared of screwing the hdd .
I'm gonna use XBOXHDM to add the new hdd to the xbox but i cant create the ISO because it's over 800mb, and I can't burn it to a CD.
This is what I have in my C Drive:
And this is what I have on the E drive:
Inside the dashboard folder I have this:
And of course the shadowc folder has the shadowc.img that is 500mb big!
How can I resolve this? Can I delete shadowc.img?
Please help me!
Thanks guys!
Here is what I would do in your case. Save everything in your E drive to a folder on your desktop, You can ftp it all back to your xbox after the swap. From several members, a clean swap is prefered, so just make a couple of folders in xboxhlm's E directory called UDATA and TDATA, you will fill them up later with your saved files so your cd burner will work. Better yet, this is what I did
Read this link
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/548462
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tfamorim
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5. April 2008 @ 02:23 |
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Thanks!
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lazytruck
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5. April 2008 @ 13:24 |
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oh, it was hard for me, but it worked! hard because of all the cables and stuff. BUT YAY! thanks for the help. now i had broken the ide cable for the C drive, so i had to sacrifice the one for the cd/dvd drives for the c drive to work. almost broke that cable too, but it barelly works now. so im getting some new ones. as for my new xbox hard drive, the drive is still locked, even though i had typed lockhd -a, and i had it have lines go down and stuff, so i thought it worked. im guessing that it didn't, since i now get error code 6. i can't try again with xboxhdm, since the cd/dvd drives are disabled, cause i broke the darn things. i really don't know for sure how to get it locked, but ill see what happens whenever i get the new IDE cables, they are harder to break now.
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tweak420
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5. April 2008 @ 21:30 |
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Originally posted by lazytruck:
oh, it was hard for me, but it worked! hard because of all the cables and stuff. BUT YAY! thanks for the help. now i had broken the ide cable for the C drive, so i had to sacrifice the one for the cd/dvd drives for the c drive to work. almost broke that cable too, but it barelly works now. so im getting some new ones. as for my new xbox hard drive, the drive is still locked, even though i had typed lockhd -a, and i had it have lines go down and stuff, so i thought it worked. im guessing that it didn't, since i now get error code 6. i can't try again with xboxhdm, since the cd/dvd drives are disabled, cause i broke the darn things. i really don't know for sure how to get it locked, but ill see what happens whenever i get the new IDE cables, they are harder to break now.
I have the same error, I also locked my hard drive. I know for sheer fact that it's not the IDE cables.
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jgdrag
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5. April 2008 @ 23:29 |
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Did you backup the eeprom file first and select the correct eeprom file to save to the eeprom folder in xboxhdm? Here is how I did my hard drive change.
I installed my evox installation disc(007)into the dvd drive and it booted to the evox screen where I backed up my eeprom file and watched where it saved my eeprom file on my hard drive and then shut it down completely. I noticed it backed it up to Udata first and then to E\ Backup after, so that is the eeprom folder I selected and everything was fine. Mind you, I saved everything off my old hard drive to my desktop and did a clean install and later reloaded the softmod to my new 320 gig hard drive.
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lazytruck
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6. April 2008 @ 10:22 |
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i think i may have messed up... whenever i backed up my eeprom, it was on my OLD xbox hd. then i took that to the xboxhdm cd, and used that. should i have used something else?
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jgdrag
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6. April 2008 @ 14:18 |
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From what I have read and ran into, there is more than 1 spot where the eeprom.bin file exists on your hd. I got my from the E/ Backup folder and put that file in the eeprom folder in the Linux folder of Xboxhdm. This is the guide I used to install a new hd
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/533828
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7. April 2008 @ 07:13 |
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lazytruck: your back up should be located in e:\backup
if there are files already in there you need to delete them and redo the back up process and then copy the eeprom files to a place on your computer, once you have them and are ready to stick them on the disk you need put them in x:\eeprom and x:\ebhdm\linux (where x is the location of XBHDM eg-: c:\xbhdm\linux\eeprom)
also use a floopy disk just for the eeprom files, if all else fails you can just not put the files in the disk and tell xbhdm to look on the floopy for them (I use this for ones I do that I dont own)
hope this helps any one with locking/unlocking issues
once again, let us know how it goes
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garlad
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8. April 2008 @ 10:50 |
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I have an xbox soft modded by a mate using 007 and action replay exploit. Currently has Evox Dash and latest XMBC.
3 questions:
Should this tutorial work for me?
If it doesnt, can I just put back in my old Xbox HDD and everything should work as before?
Can I run UnleashX Dash from Evox Dash to format a HDD partition if my drive is bigger than 137 Gigs? Do I just drop UnleashX into the apps folder and call it from Evox as I do with calling XBMC?
Thanks.
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