Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

hey footbal95, thanks for answering. I didn't mod this xbox (I bought it as it was, they ripped me because they told me it had an aladdin XT, it doesn't). I don't have the required games for the exploit so I can't re mod it.

I found out it has the NDURE mod. This mod gives you a "fake" C drive, when accessing it via FTP. I unlocked the original hard drive, and read the actual C drive and it was way different. I copied all that to the new hard drive and voila, it worked.

 

hmmm very interestin nice job and have fun

 

if any one is haveing the issue with a frozen hdd you can down load a program called hdderase.exe this will completely erase the hdd of all info including security features (ie frozen) its a little hard to find but if you type it in on google you should be pointed in the right direction although you may need to use a diff computer if your pc bios dosent accept security changes....

 

just to add this program was created by an ex employee of seagate and he was in charge of hdd security features if you are going to upgrade you xbox hdd to anysize use this first it will resovle all issues ...

 

Can I burn the iso that make-iso-win.bat make on a dvd instead on a cd since its 1.09gb

 

erm... why don't you just try? a dvd-r costs like $0,50 ...

 

yes you most certaintly can

 

first of all i'd like to thank everyone because i really got a lot of help from this forum.
but i still have one question/problem left.
I managed to get my softmodded xbox to accept my new 80gig hd. The problem i've got now though is that the E:/ drive is still very small and the F:/ drive has about 70 gig. How can i change this? my xbox is only playing games and aplications from the E:/ drive.
I copied my old hd to my new one with the linux program from the beginning of this topid.
I hope someone can help me with this.
Much thanks,

me.

 

only the F: and G: drives can be large.

you need to change your setup in evox (if that's what you're using) to search games in F: also.

 

just to let you know, if you want to burn the iso onto a normal cd, you can. You just don't include all your game saves in the iso when u create it. Then after you have the new xbox harddrive installed, ftp the gamesaves onto the fresh harddrive...

I mentioned this back on the second page of this thread:
"I decided I would just copy my TDATA and UDATA through ftp to the new harddrive, instead of putting them on the cd b/c they were so big ~2 gig. "

 

"hjf2006 (Newbie) 18. April 2006 @ 18:45
only the F: and G: drives can be large.

you need to change your setup in evox (if that's what you're using) to search games in F: also. "

could you please explain to me how to do this. i really can't find a program or anything to change this.

 

Ok i am trying to upgrade my HD but i keep getting this meassage when i boot the cp. The screen comes up and i enter 1. Then it goes to a screen and ask me to type "xboxhd" Now after i type that it comes up with this message:
INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO
This Scriptasumes /dev/hda is the device to be used
for creating or rescueing an xbox harddrive
No disk drive found on /dev/hda (primarymaster)!

Shotdown, connect a drive and reboot
root@xbox-HDM:/1

Now i have tried switching the HD from master, slave, master-slave, CS and also on all the connections on the ribbon cable. Does anyone know whats wrong or wat i might be diong worng?

 

which hdd are you using? does the computer boot the hdd it had originally? and maybe try connecting the hdd after you start the computer. or check your bios make sure the computer is setup to detect the hdd

 

The HD is a Western Digital 120gb and it did previously work in the computer iam using.

 

what about my other suggestions have you checked those?

 

hey, i just installed a 320gig western digital and i looked it up on the net and it works fine i have installed it and running unleashX tho it only have given me a F drive with 122gig and a e drive with 8 gig? how do i get the rest of my harddrive space?

Thanks

 

read back through some of these posts, I'm pretty sure someone explained it a while ago... basically u need to enable a G drive

 

question to anybody who is still following this thread. Please help me out. I tried to build an xbox drive from scratch, but after selecting one(1) from the first menu from the xboxhdm 1.9 bootdisk, it goes through a list of information about my computer and I see the hard drive that I'm wanting to upgrade to on that list. But when I type in 'xboxhd' when asked, it gives me a message saying something like 'primary master hard drive not detected, please reboot your computer with the hard drive attached'? Now the drive is attached and set to master, and for some reason it is detecting my dvdrw and cdrom drives as hda and hdb. Please help me out. thanks and later then.

 

I have moddet my xbox and i have installede a bigger Hd 200GB , like u wrote it wont work ...

Anyway i need to know what do I, do now ..

I have copiede the files over iwth xbohdm and i have installede larger HD . Boots up well and nice BUT it dosnt show my 200GB hd but only the ORGINAL Hd size.

so what to do now ??

 

it mostly depends on the dash your using but akmost all of them have a format feature that will enable the extra drive spacei use unleashx and i know it has one under file explorer. also anything over 137 gigs is going to be put on the g drive which you have to enable in the settings.