Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Where did you get your eeprom file from? E Backup? did you backup your eeprom file before you copied it to xboxhlm?

 

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

 

Thanks!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

@garlad,

Last weekend I played with softmodding an XBOX and replacing with a larger HDD(500GB). Softmodding went fine, however, when trying to build the new HDD with Xboxhdm, it was a nightmare. The guide is pretty straight forward, and technically should work with no preblems.

However, don't know why, it just didn't. I don't know if it was my PC, the bios, the drives or something, but the suker did not work. I had no problems FTP-ing, getting my EEPROM and all that. Made the Xboxhdm disc, it would boot and everything, but at the second screen would say "Linux CD not found". I download the software from different places(thought maybe corrupted), backed up my EEPROM several times(I deleted the files, backed up again), burned on several media, changed the Master/Slave combination to every one possible- no go, it would still ask for the stupid Linux CD!!

Anyway, while searching for XboxHdm alternatives, I came across Chimp. You can find it on AID disc(I used the lite version:

http://www.aidtracker.com/

It is an ISO. download it and burn it to a CD(for me it worked on a Verbatim CD-R burned at a low speed, 8X I think).

Copy Chimp from the disc into your Apps folder, then launch your dashboard and open up Chimp from Applications. Follow the guide below, and it works like a charm, it will clone your present hard drive. Don't need to find your EEPROM, it will partition your HDD,(I put in a 500GB, it made a 150GB or so F:/ dive and a large 350GB G:/ drive(and the 4.5 GB C,E...).

When you do the cloning, first clone your XBOX's drive C:/ and then repeat for drive E:/. It works great! I did not have a splitter to share the XBOX power with the new HDD, so I used my PC, opened up the case an used the power supply from one of the DVD drives. I mistakenly disconnected the power from my new HDD while it was being formatted, but it was no problem, re-started the process and all went OK!.

Give Chipm a try, I find it easier, as you don't have to FTP and hunt for the EEPROM( I see people are having problems with that; you want to FTP eventually anyway to transfer stuff from PC, but one step at a time:~)!).

Link to instructions:

http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-260.html

 

1> Yes, this tut should work fine for your needs.

2> If for some unknown reason, things fail, you can always go back to your old HD and keep on running.

3> UnleashX and EvoX are just apps that run on the xbox. Launching any app unloads the previous app while the new one loads up. In other words, it should work fine.

 

Hey,

@cyprusrom,
Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated. I still reckon if the method in this tut works first time, its the easiest option. I'll give it a try this weekend. But at least if I have any problems, theres plan number 2 (your way)!
@slaeyer,
Thanks for the confirmation. Always good to get before you start removing screws, etc

 

Actually, I think it involves less steps(if you don't have a 1.6 version box). You don't have to FTP and get the EEPROM and build the XboXHDM disc. Just download the AID iso and burn it to a disc, copy Chimp to your HDD and run it!

 

Maybe you're right. The molex splitter was putting me off, but I have an external ide enclosure I could use to power up the second HDD.
Couple more questions:
My dash has no value in sys settings for bios version. Is this a problem? Or am I limited to a 137 Gig HDD?
How do I find out if I have an XBox 1.6?

 

Sorry, ignore XBox what version is it. Found the answer here:
http://www.mod-chip.com/Lite/How_To_Identify_Xbox_Version.pdf

 

That's very good information to have available. Thank you for posting this!!

 

Help!
Just tried this tut.
Everything seemed to be going swimmingly.
Put the drive in the xbox, and now it boots into the MS Dashboard.
Any ideas where I went wrong?
What can I do to get it working?
Gar
(P.S. Maybe should have done the chimp method!)

 

Try reapplying the softmod. You likely copied the shadowed C: partition that does not include the softmod files. If you cannot reapply the softmod, disable the shadowed C: image on your original HD to copy the softmod files.

 

That is the way I do my hdd upgrades, clean install and then softmod it again and then ftp everything back but everything arranged and much more organized.