Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

same here

 

Let me elaborate a little more. I created the boot disk first. That went fine. Then I shut the computer down, unplugged the hard drives and plugged in mine. Then I went in and told it to boot from cdrom first. Then I restarted with the cd in, and it boots up to a grayish screen with a little white line, but nothing else shows.

 

does it tell you an error code

 

No, no error code. No words or anything. Just a gray screen with a little blinking white line. Almost like an underscore. This is all on my computer, by the way. Not the xbox.

 

cant help you on here maybe post a thread in the computer section or look it up

 

This is a problem related to this tutorial so I think it goes well on here. I'll wait for someone else who knows anything.

 

wait did it happen when you tried ftp

 

No. The FTP worked fine. I copied over the C and E drives as well as eeprom.bin. This problem occurs when I try to boot up with the cd on the new HD.

 

does it still do it when you boot up normally

 

I haven't tried booting up the hd normally. It's brand new, therefore blank. I did try to boot up the cd with my other hd, and got the same problem.

 

could it be that the cd itself is the problem

 

I doubt it. It would be hard for the cd to be faulty. I even reburned it a couple times using a CD-RW with the same results, thinking that was the problem.

 

well first try to boot it normally and if it doesnt work post back

 

Boot the new hd normally or the cd?

 

hd

 

It's a brand new hd with no operating system installed. When booting it, you have to have a boot disk in, otherwise you get an error saying "Cannot find boot device, please change boot method or insert cd"

 

what kind of maufacturer do you have

 

It's a seagate.

 

no for the computer

 

Built myself. No specific brand.