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elbarto1
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_ 		5. June 2008 @ 16:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
my (orginal) xbox recently died and i was wondering if i could open it and remove the HDD and put it into a different working xbox unit -or do i need to have it softmodded or chipped inorder to do this?
thanks.
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_ 		5. June 2008 @ 17:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
simply put you can't do that.

The xbox hard drive and motherboard are a pair. What makes them a pair is called the eeprom. The eeprom is a code that unlocks the hard drive when the xbox boots. Each xbox and motherboard have their own unique eeprom.

If you put the hard drive from another xbox in a different xbox it will boot with an error 6 (xbox can not unlock the hard drive). If you could unlock the hard drive and lock it with the eeprom from that xbox it would work.

There's a thread that's pretty active, that deals with this issue.

here's a link for you
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/357863
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elbarto1
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_ 		5. June 2008 @ 17:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks for the reply, i'll look into that.
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