Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Ok. So Here's what I have done and I STILL can't get the new HDD installed:

1) dled xboxhdm 1.9 from the "usual places."

2) Unpacked it successfully and built the image with both the c drive and the eeprom from the box.

3) Burned the image in nero.

4) Used the cd to format and build the HDD from scratch on TWO seperate drives (an old 250gb WD2500 I had laying around, and a brand new 80 GB WD800JB fresh out of the box today), with two different copies of the burned cd.

5) Waited for the formatting to complete, and then rebooted the pc as directed.

6) Used the linux (option 3) tool on the cd to lock the HD.

I never got any error messages when formatting the drives, so I am thinking that something must be wrong with the image. Any thoughts?

 

btw, error message is 06.

 

I would suggest that you re-acquire the eeprom from the xbox. A quick check of the following page : http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/errorcodes.php shows that error 6 means unable to UNLOCK the drive. I would hypothesize that you correctly locked the drive but it was not using the correct eeprom file. Perhaps you could download the eeprom directly from the UDATA folder. Do a search on this thread for the exact location. Once you've done this, please try again and report your results

 

That did the trick. Thanks, slaeyer.

 

Glad to hear it!

 

I would like to note that using the above steps, I have successfully done the HD swap to two xboxes. Further review of the threads in this forum would make me think that alot of ppl are not aquiring the correct eeprom file. Perhaps we should just look in the E:\UDATA folder for the eeprom.bin file from here on out!

 

Hi there. I am new to this mod bit so please bare with me.

I have an XBOX which I bought pre-modded, I understand that it is a softmodded xbox but I am not sure what method was used to mod it (at least when I open her up there is no mod chip r soldered jumpers to e seen).

I used this tutorial to create a new HDD from scratch for my xbox and it worked, however, I can only get it to boot to the plain old Xbox Dash - it will not boot into the EvoX dash as it does on my original HDD.

Is there away to enable the mod agin on this HDD? I though if I copied across all the contents of the drives as explained (and the eeprom etc)in this tutorial the new HDD would behave in exactly the same way as the old one

Any replies to clarify this are appreciated.

 

This is a common occurance after upgrading the HD. Unfortunately, without knowing how your box was modded, I can't help you much more. You will have to reaquire the softmod files and reapply them. Talk to the person you bought it from or search the web for a howto. You will need one of 3 games - Original versions of MechAssult, 007 Agent Under Fire or some Splinter Cell game I think.

There was a good howto on Digg several months back, might be in their archives. Also, xbox-scene will have alot of different variations.

 

Bugger - I was hopping there was something a newbie like me had overlooked. Thanks for your time, I will look into modding it again - god know where the guy I bought it from may be - it was over a year ago

 

Hello,
im a n00b modder also. ive come across a situation i cant seem to solve. so
1) i managed to mod my original xbox fine using by hotswapping + xboxhdm 1.9 and Ndure. the unleashx dashboard loaded fine
2) i downloaded configmagic to my xbox so that i could retrieve the eeprom. i got the eeprom (had to rename it for a bigger harddrive).
3)i copied all the files from my original harddrive to my computer (C + E but i left out all the stuff from tdata), and i created a new xboxhdm boot disc with my eeprom, C and E drives (i left ndure out this time).
4) i formatted my new harddrive, it seemed to work ok, but i THINK i saw an error when it tried to load the E drive, but xboxhdm took me back to the first page so fast, that i didnt even have a chance to see.
5) i lock my new harddrive, and pop it into my xbox. and it stalls on the MS splash screen. i take the harddrive out, and put in the original drive in, and it too is stalled on the splash screen. i pop in a game, and the game loads fine, i can play, save and even load games just fine (using the old hd, the new one just freezes). but i cant get to the dashboards to load on either the old or new harddrives. have i done some thing completely wrong? any help would be great.

 

>li150 I seem to remember an option in xboxhdm 1.9 to clone a drive. You may be successful trying that. I have not attempted this technique so you're pretty much on your own, but I see no logical reason that it will not work.

>veej I have no experience with your specific softmod configuration so I cannot offer much info but perhaps you do not have the drive installed correctly in the xbox. On my xbox, I set the drive as cable select. Other options did not work correctly and the xbox would fail to boot. Perhaps this is your issue as well.

 

Yes - you are right Sleayer - there is an option to clone a HDD. I didn't go this route because I thought it cause problems with my new HDD being 250GB in size and I wanted to be able to use it. I may give this a go.

 

Please report your success / failure. Although I personally would rather see ppl learn how to do this from start to finish, assuming success, this may be a valid option for some ppl!

 

Hello everyone,

thank you for your help. i did have the drive on cable select, but i managed to get the drive working. for those that might be in the same situation as me, i will explain what exactly happened.
i softmodded my xbox using hotswapping. i used a dell computer, and required a "double swapping" (with the drive on Cable Select). i put the xbox hd in my computer, so that the dell bios would recognize that there actually was a harddrive (eventhough it cant read it). then i hotswapped it into the xbox, and powered it up, and swapped it out almost immediately assuming it was unlocked. i hotswapped it again into the computer, and pressed 2 on the xboxhdm+nudure cd i made. then i typed xbrowser, navigated to the ndure folder, and ran the ndure script. i choose option 1 (install ndure), and let the program do the rest. then i put the drive back into the xbox, launched it, and i successfully softmodded it. then i ftp-ed into it and dropped config magic to get the eeprom. then i created another xboxhdm cd but this time i copied the eeprom file into the eeprom folder for the cd (along with the C drive of my original drive). then using the newly burnt cd, i connected my new hd, unlocked it, performed the same steps for xboxhdm as above, and then popped it into the xbox. lo-and-behold, it worked. now the only problem i have is that the system only shows 137gigs on my 200gig drive, which i guess is the problem with softmodding, but all i have to say is that it worked. thank you to all those that helped me out

 

Glad to hear you got it working!

The 137 GB limit is overcome by formatting with an LBA 48 aware dashboard. I am unsure of all the dash's out there but I have read that UnleashX can format a G partition above 137 GB. This may help!

 

I used the original HD from the xbox and cloned it to an 80 gig then created an f drive and it works just fine.... the only problem i have now is that in the dashboard i do not know how to make it so my saved games can be accessed from GAMES on the main menu now that they are in the F drive. any one know how to do this?? please help

 

I know of no way to force the xbox to access save games on any partition other than E. The simplest way I can think of to solve your issue would be to move that info from F to E

 

You mean games you've copied to the drive as opposed to game save data? The correct answer will depend on which dashboard you are using then researching how to enable the F partition on that dashboard. In EvolutionX there is an option in the system settings folder to enable the F and G partitions to be seen by the dash.

 

ya there is a way make sure you have the folder named the same like i had games and applications but only the games came up and i had to change the applications folder to apps look at the folders on your e drive i used unleash x dash

 

thanks slaeyer, using UnleashX (which came with the XboxHDM + NDURE install), i simply went into the system's menu and enabled the G: drive, then went to the format menu (and if anyone wants to know, the password to get into the format menu is Xbox <-- capital 'X', lower case 'box'), and formatted both the F and G drives, and voila, i have the full 200Gig on my xbox.