Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Well i guess they are nailing peeps for having larger Hard drives now on Xbox Live ? I never had a problem before .

 

so you play on live with a 200gb harddrive and your fine? do you mod or do anything on live? what do you ahve on your xbox when you go onto live? and was the name you used created while using that harddrive?

 

If I get a new hard drive and do the steps it says then put it into my xbox can, when i want to get on xbox live just put my old hard drive back in to get on live?

 

CT826 , Nah i never had a problem playing on Xbox Live with "real games" it's been awhile though , that is was i asked if people were getting nailed . And no i don't Mod game files. I just play the game. modded dash and back my games up is what i do , no cheats , no modded maps .. etc .

 

yes you can put the original in and go on xbox live with no prob thats what i do

 

Softmodded Xbox (2.8 Evox dash)
300GB HDD
G drive enabled

But only have like 126GB of space?

 

(G )partition Enabled but is it formatted ? Try using the UnleashX dash and format(G)Partition , you need to format (G) to use it " that is most likely why you dont the other GB's available on your 300 gb drive " .. I don't use Evox so I just don't know how to it on there but on UnleashX i had no problem Formatting (G) .. P.S. Advice for new Softmodders " use UnleashX it's more user friendly. After you learn the basics then you can use other dashboards. Just a Suggestion .

 

ive used the Format thru Unleashed and it didnt do anything
Ive been softmodding for a while just never used bigger drives lol

 

Have you searched the forums to see if you can get most of the 300 GBs of space to format ? It may just be the HD or yur gonna have to get a Modchip to get the Full 300 GB's

 

hey i am also trying to put in a 300 GB hdd (haven't boughtit yet but its only $150) and i don't want to waste the money if i can't use it... so how would i go about being able to use all 300GBs???

thnx in advance, jkl

 

Thank you people i upgraded my hard drive but some games dont work can some 1 tell me y

 

Hey guys, I am pretty new at this stuff, and need some help... this seems to be the place to go. I am trying to install a new 300 gig hdd on my softmodded box. I am using the tutorial at the top, (xbhdm tut) and the problem I am running into is that I cannot get into the main screen where you have the three options (1.boot to vga, 2...etc) number 1, I am not sure if my hdd is set to master or not, and if not how would I do that in bios? 2, I might possibly be burning the linux iso wrong... do I burn it as a bootable disc? or as an image? and do I burn JUST the iso file, or is there more? (btw, I am using nero 6 express) any advice from all you pro's would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks!

 

ok the jumper settings to chancge the hdd to master and back to cs are on the back of the dive close to where you hook it up to the wires. also you do not wanna copy the image to a cd that would be just dragging and dropping you wanna just double click it and follow the onscreen instructions and yes burn it as bootable.


as for the person who cannot play some games i have no idea i did not have the problem you may wanna try reinstalling the soft mod that may work

 

I used xboxhdm everything went well till i rebooted and came the locking step i type lockhd -a they ask me if i wanna try locking the drive i type yes it does nothing it just say aborting and it shows me my drive status that goes as follow...

Hdd serial:...
hdd firmware:...
hdd model:...
security supported:yes
security enabled:no
security lock:no
security frozen:no
security count expired:no

help me plz!!!

my hdd is listed has lockable!!!

 

Get your eeprom.bin from the UDATA in E:.. Your probally getting the wrong HD key that corresponds with that eeprom.

 

no pittfan sorry your wrong you have to do the whole plug in the hdd power cord at the first options screen this way your computer bios wont know there is an hdd and it wont try stopping the hdd from locking and unlocking i posted this earlier in this forum as well.

just unplug your hdd power cable, boot to the first menu screen, plug in the cable quickly dont dilly daddle or you might make your computer turn off, then follow the directions from there hope this helps

 

by plugging my power cable while my pc is powered on is there any chance to fry my system ??? or to mess something up ?

 

OK ,So you don't have to worry about the Quick Swap!!! .. Hit the [Pause] key before the pc boots to the BIOS Screen. that will give you all the time in the world to swap the IDE cable then hit the [Spacebar] to countinue the boot .. And also , Yeah you can mess up your puter if you " plug in the "power cable" to a HD while the computer is on " DONT plug in the power cable to the hard drive after the power is already on ! plug in all power plugs before you boot.

 

footbal95 ... I'm wrong for what ? This is'nt a contest,I just posted a Suggestion .

 

aaahhh ok its the power cable that i most connect after the bios boots up its the ide !!! if i get this right lol.

so i plug the power cable on the disc i wanna lock but not the ide then when the bios boots up i hit pause button and plug the ide ??? right ???

when do i know the bios is booted up ?