I attempted to change my hdd today and made no success I planned to use the slayer 2.7 to change it. From what I read all I needed to do was change the hdd and then boot the disc so I did but now the disc won't boot and I'm getting that problem with xbox message. What might be wrong? Do I need to change the jumper setting? Is it a compatible hdd issue. I have a western digital wd800jb 80gb if you have any suggestions let me know what to do cause this pretty much all I can do right now to change this hdd anything extra is going to hit me in the pockets again if you know what I mean ><
I changed back to the retail hdd and it booted no problem so I know its the hdd I was wondering can I hot swap it or is that a bad idea.
Firstly, make sure the hdd is compatible with the xbox http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list&v_modelnum=WD800JB Slayers was never intended for softmodding and it doesn't sound like you have a chip? I used SID 4, on 4 seperate softmods successfully If the hdd is compatible, soft modding a new drive is pretty easy with xboxhdm.and there are ample tutorials in doing it this way here at AD. Try this tut http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/366945
Thanks it was a success. Longer process then I had hopped for but wasn't as bad as I thought. Once again I managed to dodge another noob bullet and not completely waste money
The motherboard and the hard drive are married as in the eeprom holds the vital hdd information for that combination of board and hdd. If you wanted a different hdd for that box, you could use the same disk.
Cool I'm having some problems and I'm guessing the hd is the problem I loaded it up using the softmod method keeping everything from C: and E:. It seems that XBMC is acting up a bit. Sometimes I go into one of the options on the opening menu and it will just go to black I can go back to the menu and it will pop up again but that gets annoying. The second thing is sometimes it pauses on loading the video streams I have to restart. I'm considering just doing a clean install >< or upgrade to get it back to its regular performance. What do you suggest.
I would do a clean install of XBMC. Or on the E drive there are 2 folders Udata folder and a Tdata folder, delete the 0face008 folder in both before doing a clean install to see if that helps first
Um, guys, are you sayin slayer's 2.7 can be used to softmod but sid and aid are better? What if i have only slayer's 2.7 now? Should i try using it considering i ftp c:, e: and eeprom to my pc then incorporate it all into slayer's 2.7? I know, no one has tried it but i'm experimental, do you think it could work?
i don't have any of those games and i don't have a memory card, so you guessed it, i'm trying to softmod another route, ok, the cheaper way where i don't buy anything. thx. Wait, i got splinter cell!
