do you see white microsoft logo appears under XBOX when you turn on xbox without any game in dvd drive?

If yes, then hotswap will fix your xbox.

ya it shows up, thx

hey the xplorer 360 how do i use that? i downloaded it but what do i do to put the downloaded dashboard on my xbox?after im connected to pc

did you read tutor carefully? Just download and install it on PC. Download load ms dash and unrar it.

Then follow the tut

hi there i was wondering if you can help us a freind bought an xbox which had been modded but now he has deleted everything off the hardrive and now only gets the big green x and doesnt have the white microsfot logo i am in the middle of downloading the msdashboard have and both xplorer360 beta3 and beta4 can i restor default factory setting even though i havent a logo please help as sonn as possible cheers curving

well you dont see microsoft logo that means you can't do hotswap.

Why? because xbox will not unlock the hdd. So PC can not read the xbox hdd. The hdd is unlock if you see microsoft logo appears under the big X and XBOX.

In your case, you need to borrow/buy the modchip.

Hello, is it possible to fix error 16 that can't be hot swapped by getting a replacement xbox hard drive and putting it straight into the xbox?

Thank you

thanks is there any other way of fixing it and do you know where i could pick one up from ie well sells them? please reply as soon as possible cheers have now downloaded the msdashboard cheers curving

@curving
If you backed up eeprom of this xbox to PC, then I have another way. Otherwise you need a modchip. There are a lot of sites to sell xbox modchip. If you want the best modchip, I suggest to buy Xecuter 3 CE (X3ce).


www.divineo.com/
www.modchip.com/
www.mod-chip.com/
www.modchip.ca/store/home.php


@matrix34
Yes if you have eeprom of the broken xbox on PC. Otherwise, you need modchip.

The Return,
i unconnect a dvd or cd drive to connect xbox to pc right?

nvm i got it

where are you at now? can you access the xbox hdd on PC?

Thanks for the information. I saw posted on another thread that the spider chip is a good solution to fix it and doesn't cost too much. Can someone tell me a place I can get it from in the UK please?

Thank you

EDIT: Will a duox 2 chip work?

the flat grey cord is the IDE cable right?

@conker77
yes. There should be 2 IDE cables on PC. The primary goes to PC's hdd. The secondary will go to xbox's hdd. PC's hdd and Xbox's hdd are NOT on the same IDE cable.

@matrix34
Yes it works. But you have to know how to install and flash bios. I dont know much about those chips.

thanks but what he didnt do was back up he diddnt connect it to pc and everything is gone so it looks like he will have to buy a mod chip thanks again for your help and your quick responces curving

Hiya, my Xbox used to get error 21 cause well I screwed it up by trying to put the original MS dash back on while it was softmodded and well yeah. So I tried this method and followed instructions as well as I could and well the end result is now I get error 16, I can still get into my HDD though cause I have that Xbox Recovery Disc and I can still unhook the IDE cable and get into it like the method mentions and well... anyone have any idea how I can fix this? And just so you know the Recovery Disc don't fix it. Any help is appreciated.

ok get into the hdd, then list all files and folders on ROOT of C, E drive.

C: Folders: Audio, fonts, xboxdashdata.1012a700, xodash
Files: xboxdash.xbe

E: Folders: UDATA, TDATA

well i gotta go for now, i won't be able to test anything out till monday. cause well it's not my computer and if the person who owns it knew i was using it in such a way i dont know if they'd approve (he's old and would think i'd break it) so still try to help me out please with any info or recommendations and i shall test them monday.

thank you

Look like you dont have a complete working ms dash. It should be like this:

C:\Audio, Fonts, xboxdashdata, xodash, xboxdash.xbe, Xbox.xtf, Xboxbook.xtf

E:\UDATA, TDATA (This 2 folders are empty)

X, Y, Z are empty

i had downloaded the original files from that link you provided, and well those two files I didn't mention are in the font folder and I'm pretty sure I had also copied them to the root of C and well that didn't seem to fix it. So maybe that backup of the original files is missing something? or maybe they're corrupted... I don't know.

Can you download MS dash from bittorent and try it?

yeah i was gonna try that but I gotta get someone else to do it for me cause I'm stuck on dialup and it would take forever. I'll inform you how it all works out once I get it. i appreciate all the help, and this was a fantasic tutorial. thanks.

You can also get a full original MS dash from your friends if they have.