Upgrading a v1.6 Xbox with Xenium Ice

I am about to buy a Seagate 160gig hd (Model: ST3160023A).

Is this all I do to install it:

Take off the cover
Disconnect the original hd. Take off the cable to the DVD drive.

Set original drive to master, Set new drive to slave

Attach the dvd cable to the new drive and the original drive back to the ide cable and use a power splitter to connect both drives and then goto the xenium ice menu/drive upgrade wizard

 

Make sure u upgraded u're bios first so it can read hard drives larger than 130 gig...U got the right procedures for upgrading u're hard drive.

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My bios I believe is X2.5032.

How do I go about adding LBA48 to the drive?

 

you can't run 2 hd's at the same time...you can have 2 hd's but you will need a switch to regulate which hd will get the power.

if you are looking to just upgrade to a new hd, just put it in and format it with the xenium os...then just install a dashboard and whatever else you wish to put on the hd.

 

Yeah, I'm just taking out the small drive and putting in a 160gig seagate drive.

What do I gotta do for this 137gig barrier stuff or is there anything I need to do? I use Evox, XBMC and UnleashX dashboards.

 

Flash your bios with a new one and which support a larger LBA.If u know u're chip maker and version of u're XB, look around for a bios that u can use.I'm not sure but i think Slayer's auto installer has everything on 1 disc.

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nobody knows about xbtool? i thought sum1 wouldve answered this before i even got here. well anyways get xbtool and load up ur bios into it and leave everything alone if ur bios works the way u want it to. click LBA48 support and save the bios. then it works!

 

I tried Xbtool and its set to F drive gets 137, G gets rest and G drive still shows as 0.

 

pm me any instant messenger screen name ill give u the bios. i can make the bios do anything u want.

 

Have you formatted the G drive yet? If not you must do so....

Have you made your switch yet for the two HD's? If not and you want to learn how or even buy a premade one, check this site out, http://webpages.charter.net/modchipzone/xboxhdswitch.htm

 

The Xenium OS formatted the f drive and copied the content from c and e of the original drive to the new drive. I didnt see it say anything about formatting the g drive.

Can I safely format the G drive w/o messing up the other partitions?

 

Yes you can, and you must do it. Formatting the G drive will not mess up any other partition on your Xbox's HD. But w/ it not being formatted, your Xbox will never even know that it has more space available on the HD.

 

Ok when I load up my xbox and it goes to the xenium os screen, I then ftp to my box and goto the G drive. I ftped a 50meg file to the g drive and I see it listed on the G drive on flashfxp. Do I still need to format the G drive even if I can ftp to it?

 

lol, yes.... When in doubt just follow the Nike slogan..... JUST DO IT

hahaha

 

Ok well after formatting the G drive, It still doesnt show (Evox says G drive 0/0, UnleashX shows 0/0 and so does XBMC.

 

Well, that is strange that even XBMC is not recognizing the G: Even if you have not altered the dash, it should still show up.

In your evoxdash.xbe file, did you customize it so it reads the G:?

Here is how mine looks,

Section "Root"
{
Item "Launch Game/DVD",ID_Launch_DVD
Item "Trainers",ID_trainer
Item "MS Dashboard",ID_MS_Dash
Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
# Item "Power Cycle",ID_Full_Reboot
Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
# Item "Lock Harddisk",@210
# Item "Unlock Harddisk",@211
Section "System Utils"
{
Item "Settings",ID_Settings
Item "Flash BIOS",ID_Flash_Bios
Item "Backup",ID_Backup
Item "Skins",ID_Skins
}
Section "Launch Menu"
{
Section "Games"
{
AutoAddItem "e:\games\"
AutoAddItem "f:\games\"
[/bold]AutoAddItem "g:\games\"[/bold]
SortAll
}
Section "Apps"
{
AutoAddItem "e:\apps\"
AutoAddItem "f:\apps\"
[bold]AutoAddItem "g:\apps\"[/bold]
SortAll
}
Section "Emulators"
{
AutoAddItem "e:\emulators\"
AutoAddItem "f:\emulators\"
[bold]AutoAddItem "g:\emulators\"[/bold]
SortAll
}
Section "Movies"
{
AutoAddItem "e:\movies\"
AutoAddItem "f:\movies\"
[bold]AutoAddItem "g:\movies\"[/bold]
SortAll
}
}
}

If you have not customized your evoxdash.xbe file, then try adding that g: to those sections (yours may look a tad different)

If you still cannot get it working, I would say take it up w/ some hardcore Xbox nerds on http://www.xbox-scene.com

 

well u can get evox m8 bios and evtool (xbtool for evox bios) then just retry that. i didnt see u on YIM, FantomAU.

 

I'm on there now

 

wuts it again i got it as fantomtur. ive also tried fantomur and fantomau

 

also it IS yahoo instant messenger right?