i softmodded my xbox installed the unleash dashboard got off my xbox got back on and it strait to the XBOX logo screen, it wont play DVD's and when i put games in it playes them but i thought i could just redo it, but its not there, its gone when i started up splinter cell went to start then checkpoints it wasnt there like before. so i cant do that so yall told me to hotswap i used xboxhdm i made the CD and put it in and i did everything else i push Pause Break key when my computer first starts up i have a compaq running Xp and soon aas i see a screen i hit tha t button and i hook my xbox up hit it agian and that screen comes up and ur suppost to hit option 1 i did, and it doesnt find it wich the hard drive is locked right, so do i put a game in there or do it or does it maddder? u alls tutorials are conplicated and i aint no noob. plz help im tired of messing with this damn thing. plz and thank u
YOu need to do hotswap. I have a good tutor in here. I have guided this man and successed install back the ms dash. Just read through the this thread http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2/313623
ok when i resart my computer and hit pause break key and switch the xbox hard drive and plug ur computer wire into ur xbox hard drive, then hit the space bar, well its not finding my hard drive to do this but i think i kno what wrong, on ur xbox CD drive do u unplug everything to it or wat, they have to be more spicific in the tutorials
I've seen enough posts around here referring to hotswapping, but I haven't seen a good guide. So, without further ado, I present the art of hotswapping. Why would I want to hotswap? Two reasons. One is, you tried to do a softmod and fuxed it up, and now your xbox is giving you error 21. This will allow you to install the default MS dashboard files, and repair your box. Second is you don't wanna hack up a controller or buy an action replay, but still want to do a softmod. You can use this to copy the hacked gamesaves to your xbox. WARNING: MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS HERE, AND HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING. FAILURE TO DO THIS COULD RESULT IN A USELESS XBOX. You will need: Xbox Torxx screwdrivers a small phillips screwdriver PC with at least one free slot for a hard drive FatXExplorer (It's in french, but more stable than xplorer360) http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/~xbox/xbox...TXExplorer.zip OR Xplorer360 http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/xbox360pc/harddr...rer360beta4.rar 1. Remove the four feet from the bottom of your xbox. Use the torxx screwdriver to remove the four screws. There are two more in the center, beneath the stickers. Take these out as well. 2. Take off the top cover. Use your torxx screwdriver to take out the two brass screws that are in the center holding the drive housing down. 3. Remove the section of casing with the harddrive in it. 4. Use the phillips screwrdriver to take out the four screws holding the HD in place. (You don't have to do this, but it makes getting at the data cable much easier) 5. Open up your PC, and make sure that you can plug the a data cable into the HD with the xbox's power cable still attached to the hard drive. Make sure your PC is already booted and logged in. 6. Now we've got everything ready. Making sure the a/v cable is attached to the xbox and that the power/data cables are hooked up to the hard drive, turn your xbox on. Wait a little bit to make sure the boot process has completed. 7. Being VERY careful not to jolt or shake the HD too much, disconnect the DATA cable from the harddrive WITHOUT powering off the xbox. Now plug in your PC's data cable. 8. Run xplorer360. Go to drive->open->harddrive or memcard 9. Xplorer360 SHOULD read the harddrive. If it doesn't, you may have to go to the device manager and have it scan for changes. 10. Once you've modified the harddrive as you like, BE SURE TO RECONNECT THE XBOX'S DATA CABLE TO THE HD BEFORE POWERING OFF YOUR XBOX. NOT DOING THIS CAN MAKE THE HD STAY UNLOCKED, WHICH RENDERS IT USELESS FOR YOUR XBOX. DON'T MESSAGE ME SAYING YOU FUXED YOUR BOX UP BY IGNORING THIS STEP. 11. Provided you didn't delete any important files, you should now be good to go.
According to the guide. - You have a long IDE cable. One end connect to motherboard on PC. The other end is free - Open your xbox and free the hdd. So you can easily move it. But hdd is still connect xbox - Turn on the xbox, when you see ms logo appear under the big X, quickly remove the IDE cable on xbox hdd and connect the one from computer to it. Xbox still power on.
ok ic what i did wrong here, u start up ur computer without the IDE cabel ever attached to the hard drive, thats what im doin wrong
Not sure if he's fixed this yet but when I done this to mine i had to use a power cable from my pc to power the xbox hard drive or it would not work for some reason. Maybe worth a go.
I'm not good at explaining things but if you have followed that guide above and now have your box ready and your pc ready then here is what I done. Both are turned off to start with. I connected a power cable from my pc to the xbox hard drive. Obviously the ide cable was still going from the hard drive to the xbox mother board. I then powered up my pc but just before it goes through the detecting hard drive stage I pressed 'pause Break' on the keyboard.This stops the pc fully booting up. Next step was to power on the xbox and just as the logo loads up disconnect the IDE cable. You can now plug the IDE cable from your pc into the xbox hard drive. Once that is done press 'A' on your keyboard and this should start to boot your computer again. You may need to press it a few times. This should now boot your pc and when it has logged on to windows you may get a 'detected new hard ware' message(i done mine twice, first time it detected it and second time it did not so its worth carrying on even if it did not detect it) I then opened up xlorer360 and you should see 5 partitions down the left hand side. You want to put your M$ dash files in partiton 3. then when you put it all back together you can load up splinter cell and the soft mod save and Re do what needs to be done. Forgot to say, that you must put your xbox hard drive back in to the box before switching it off so this can re lock it to your box. This may take time till you get it right as i spent about 10 hours trying to get mine up and running properly so be patient. If you still have problems give us a shout
ok ill try this, i have a site of my own i kno how hard it is when ppl come here they sound just like the others, i just want to get this done!
@shinnster It is very clear details. Hotmod, you should have no problem with this Anyway, the partition 3 is the C drive. So do you know which partition for the E drive?
umm i donno, i have the M$ dashboard so hopefully that will work im going to try it today! ill get back with ya and tell u how it goes
for hotswapping, can you use the same ide cable that is being used for the primary hdd, just do the xbox hdd as slave? do i need to change jumpers on hdd's????? anyone please????
I keep getn a error message that says "Please Call Customer Support" wat do i do n dis case? Plz I need help....
@sesko No. dont connect to the primary hdd on pc. Connect it to another ide cable which goes to secondary ide port. Jumper on xbox hdd should be master or CS. @DaGerMan what is the error code? if it say 21, 13,14,16, try to do hotswap above.
