Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Oh, I forgot to mention that the HD is lockable. I searched just to make sure befoe I even bought it.

 

I am having the same problem as Lewda99...

I have already softmodded my xbox, I have two dashboard: UnleashX and EvolutionX, everythin is fine so far. I now want to replace the original xbox hard drive with a newer WD 160 GB drive. I FTPd over my C: and E: drives from the xbox as well as the EEPROM bin file. I followed the exact steps to make the bootable hdm cd. I opened up my computer (I have one HD in it as Primary Master and I have two cd drives on Secondary Master & the other on Secondary Slave). I unplugged my HD in the computer and hooked up my new HD to it. When I turn on my computer, it finds the HD then the linux cd boots up and I see the options. I choose "1" and then press enter. It loads a couple of files then my computer gets restarted again. I never get to the screen where i have to enter "xboxhd". Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance.

 

HELP PLEASE...i was trying to upgrade my xbox hd and i pressed "4" instead of "1" on the hdm boot disc menu...my computer won't even recognize the HD. IS MY NEW HARD DRIVE JUST PAPERWEIGHT NOW OR CAN I FIX THIS PROBLEM???? PLEASE HELP!!!!

 

Im going to try chimp....

 

yeah.... chimp didn't do ANYTHING... Is there a tut for chimp?

 

SOrry about the last post, i guess i just freaked...my computer recognized the hard drive after abou the third reboot.

All Right, I uninstalled the softmod i had and modded my xbox using the softmod tut on this site. I dont have E:\ backup_linux\ on my xbon after the softmod. I do have an eeprom bin file (256 kb) at E:/UDATA/21585554/000000000000/backup/eeprom.bin so i used this file to put into the linux folder of the hdm cd folder. Then i transferred over the C: and E: drives. I made the boot cd and this time i used my 9 year old computer and voila! i was able to press "1" and then able to type "xboxhd" and follow all of the steps.

Now, where i ran into a problem was when i needed to lock my HD (it is WD 160 GB WD1600JB - 00GVA0, which i found online is lockable). When I try to lock the HD, after about 1 min, i get a message saying fatal error and bunch of other stuff. Could the problem be my eeprom file, because i noticed that when i transffered it from my xbox to my computer the size is now 1 KB, but when i right click then properties, it says the size is 265 KB and that size of disk is 4KB.

ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED. Thanks once again.

 

Can someone help me I have a Xbox Dash Bord 5960 can i still mod my xbox with

 

Yahoo333: Stop freaking out, if at first you dont suceed retry, also ensure you got your c: and e:

jxp2307: you may have got the wrong eeprom.bin, put old one in and redo backup from evox then try again, if you have another pc try that

chief424: a spanner? not sure what your asking, be more clear

 

tuts say you need dashboard version 4920 but i have 5960 can i still mod my xbox with 5960 ..Please Help

 

Alright... Is it possible to have more than one eemprom on my xbox? Could I have put my softmoded eemprom on my xboxhdm 1.9 disc?

If that is what I did, how do you guys think I should go about finding the REAL eemprom on my xbox?

Am I even making sense?

 

Chief424: What tut are you looking at...I have the same dashboard and was successful in softmodding my xbox using this tut:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/311710

...just having problem locking my HD.

error55o: Yeah, I'm still having the same problem. I followed someone else's advice to load the save game while the game is in the xbox (007 is what i used for the exploit) and FTP the C: at the installation menu b/c this is the real C: not the virtual C: SO I did this and made a new iso and burned it, but i still get the same error message. Anything else you (or anyone else can think of?)

 

Try redoing the back up of the original hard drive's c and e, I know it sounds stupid but sometimes FTP messes up a transfer or two, while its in there redo your eeprom.bin too, I had a bad FTP copy when I did mine but I then used XBMC to copy all the c and e drives over to my pc (just like using on old explorer that has network connections via SMB)

Try it, It may just work this time

Also try a differant computer, I had issues with 4 of the 5 I have

 

yahoo333: copy the C and E you cvan see, dont worry if it's not the proper C, the softmod uses the virtual c to protect your EEPROM.BIN
so copy the c and e you can see.

 

yahoo333: I am using this tut right here>>http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=94429 look at Equipment needed: number one

 

Chief424: Not too sure about how that tut would work out (never tried it)...i would suggest that you use the one i linked earlier. I was fairly quick and easy. You can ask me for any help you may need. Here is another tut that i have tried and it worked just fine, it requires pretty much the same equipment (your dashboard version will work). THere is also a video on the top of the page that you can follow, you cant mess it up.

http://www.softmoddepot.com/tutorials-how-tos-etc/softmod-with-krayzie-uxe-installer/

error55o: I think thats what i will do, i only tried it on two computers, i will have to look around to try a few more now that i see that it took 5 computers for yours to work, thanks man.

 

YAHOO333:Thanks a lot dud u rock out hard

 

Chief424: No Problem Chief, now maybe when you try to upgrade your stock hard drive you may be able to help me out.

 

.lol.. yea just modding my xbox was hard enough so i dont think ill be doing any up grades unless im PPFing a map..lol..

 

jpx, i had some trouble similar to this. i ended up using my emmprom to lock my bro's new harddrive. unfortunately i didnt notice that until it was too late(long story). but at any rate evox is the best to start out with until u get a good grasp on everything. this is wut u need to do after evox is installed. if u have it as ur boot dash then go to settings and select backup. afterwards create a ftp connection from ur computer to ur xbox. go to the C drive of ur xbox and there should b a folder called backup. that's the emmprom u wanna get. make a new xboxhd cd and try that.

hope that works

GOODLUCK

-grayfox12

 

Well, I unmodded my xbox, and then remodded it. I took the eeprom that that generated, and made a new xboxhdm disc. Worked like a charm!!

Only problem is that now when I try to play a game from my new hd, it seems to lock up....

Any ideas?