Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

did you make a resource cd

 

No, not that I'm aware of.

 

you may be stuck then i created a computer i made to resource cds just in case with a 300gb hard drive and it works perfectly

 

I'm not entirely sure how a resource cd is going to help me here... This is a problem with booting up the new hd.

 

a resource cd bring back all source of the original data or creates it so try to get one off dell maybe that should work

 

Makes sense and all, except it won't help me here. There aren't any problems with the computer as far as that goes. I'm assuming it might be a wrong setting or a difference in the bios causing the problem. A resource cd won't help.

 

if its the bios causing the problem then a resource cd wouldnt help

 

I know.. I just said that.

 

sadly i cant help you on this topic

 

I'm trying to upgrade the hard disk in my softmodded xbox.

I copied the eeprom.bin from my UDATA folder, and locked the hard disk (western digital WD800 80GB hard disk) successfully, and copied all the data to it, but when I put it in the xbox i get error code 13.

I'm very confused! I've tried many times, with different softmod configurations on the xbox.

Regards,
Ben

 

I fixed my problem, if anyone is getting the same error I cloned my softmodded stock xbox hard disk to the new hard disk, and used Autoinstaller Deluxe to format the F: partition.

 

im having trouble burning the iso image to wear it will boot ive tried diff progs and cant figure out what im doing wrong when i burn the disk it wont load in the comp it just acts like theres nothing nad ive changed the boot order aS well any help would appreciated

 

Same issue I'm having. Do you get a blank, gray screen?

 

Sometimes and then other times it tries to load the hard drive nad floopy drives and starts asking for system disk

 

ostoroth and cheynems:

I know this may not help a whole lot buy when I was upgrading my HD, the process did not work on my HP computer, so I tried my second computer which is like 8 yrs old and it worked. There was another person on this thread that said it took them like 4 computers to finally get it working so you may have to try your friends computer.

Other idea...The boot cd should load no matter what (if it burned correctly) as long as the bios is set to boot from the specific cd drive. FOr the computer i used to upgrade the hard drive, it had two cd drives: a cd burner and a cd rom. I had to unplug one of the drives to get the cd to work. So try different computers and that might solve your problems.

 

thanks for the help but i figured it out what i had to do was i changed the bios but also when my computer would start at the screen to press the button to enter you bios i pressed esc to enter i diff boot menu so just try that and or the other f keys and hopefully your find that im using a compaq computer as well

 

guys you have to softmod the xbox first then u will beable to get the backup file. after that u can unmod it as long as u have the right tools for the job. i mean i already mod a ton of xbox's for some money from the time consumption. i just want to get a program that can partition all of the areas instead of just the E: area i need a soft mod that also partitions the f area. i dont want a old program either i got the newest version xbox version 1.6 but, it's not for my xbox cause i have a mod chip n all. its for my friend he has a standard xbox and i have the game mech to softmod it with.

 

I used Auto Installer Deluxe to do mine, although i've seen the option in UnleashX.

 

@Th3Gam3

If you had read my previous post, you would have realized that my xbox is softmodded. I already obtained a copy of my c and e drives, as well as a backup (the eeprom file). It was a problem with booting up, and I have been unable to fix it. My only solution is to hardmod my xbox, which I am doing. Thanks anyway.

 

I've seen loads of similar probs caused by XboxHDM

the prob was the eeprom.bin was searched for in the wrong location, to fix place eeprom.bin in the root fo the XISO directory as well as in eeprom

(not sure if this may be related at all mind)