Hi Long time reader, first time poster. I am unsure though if this is the proper place to put this thread. I also do not know what information is needed, so I will attempt to spew out anything that may seem relevent. Here it goes: I acquired a version 1.1 xbox. I have a friend that had previously modded his xbox, so I am borrowing his materials. It involves SID4 N-Knave Edition and James Bond. I can go through bond and get into the SID 4 install no problem. As the tutorial said, I attempt to create a backup of EEPROM and MS. There are no problems with EEPROM backup, but I cannot do the MS backup. The ms backup fails out and says: Batch process failed. The last item was: FOUND EXISTING SOFTMOD. Action Rename. SID 4 won't do the softmod without the MS backup, but I cannot seem to do the MS backup because is apparently already modded. I also do not feel comfortable doing the Uninstall Softmod, because it says it will use E:\backup, which there is no such directory. Just in case if there are questions, here is my directory listing: C:\ AUDIO\ default.xip dvd.xip jkeyboard.xip Keyboard.xip mainmenu5.xip Memory2.xip memory_files2.xip Message.xip music2.xip music_copy3.xip Music_PlayEdit2.xip settings3.xip settings_adoc.xip Settings_Clock.xip settings_language.zip settings_list.xip settings_panel.xip settings_parental.xip settings_timezone.zip settings_video.xip XBox Book.xtf Xbox.xtf xboxdash.xbe E:\ CACHE\ TDATA\ UDATA\ So it sounds like my retail xbox is borked since it cannot backup MS. Could there just be a couple of files that I could delete/rename to make this retail? Would there be another installer that can help me out in this situation?
Don't rename anything but it seems you know how to FTP into your xbox. Backup your eeprom onto your pc. Its located in E:\UDATA\21xxxxxx\000000000000\backup\"eeprom.bin". Your xbox is not broken. Have you previously modded your box before? If you haven't, check you MS Dashboard version. Go to settings-system info. It must say 5960, if it doesn't you need to upgrade your ms dash by using a xbox live game created through mid 2004-present. Use SID 4.5 or 5.01 These are the most stable versions and it creates a correct dump eeprom copy, earlier SID versions have bugs. These can be found in the Auto Installer packages.
Backup your eeprom before you update your ms dashboard you never know the box my enter into an update loop now that's big trouble. But if you need a clean copy of the ms dash get ahold of a AID iso. Ask your friend he should have one, besides it contains apps emulators.
Don't panic, you just have a modded version of the dash, you need to reinstall a new one! Here's a guide on how to do that! http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/558758
