Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Agreed

 

WOW.....i forgot I had ever made this tut, and I come back to Afterdawn after years lol and its still here....and still not even stickied LOL...ah well...at least it seems by the amount of posts, that a LOT of people have been helped by the tut, and the people currently posting on it, such as slaeyer....cheers!

 

yeah i used this a while back good work man!

 

yeah this is the same one i used to do mine, i really don't understand how people can't figure it out?? mabe they can't read or search very well

 

So glad to see you guys found it helpful and easy to understand....I was once a modding noob myself, and it took helpful people to get to where I'm at, so I understand how some people might feel...but like Game said above, all it takes is a little effort and desire to actually READ lol....

 

Glad to hear that people are still finding use in this thread.

 

Help, Im a noob, but have managed to get quite aways just reading tutorials (Thanks Guys), but I have ran into a problem now, I have bought a seagate 250gb HD, it locks and such, I have made a duplicate of my original xboxHD, all the files are there and even listed as fatX files in xbrowser, I lock the drive using xboxhdm and get error 5 on the xbox, unlock it and get error 6 on the xbox, I think i might try disabling, does anybody have any suggestions???
Much Appreciated

 

you need config magic 1.6

 

well, I did it after all, I used ndts file off of ndure installer, copied it to my original xbox hard drive, ran the version of evox found in that file, copied c and e drive to hdm, copied eeprom and with live info tool hooked my 250 gig to my computer, went into live info added hdd password from my 10 gig drive saved bin file and cfg file, and put them on hdm also, loaded hdm, tried to copy c drive that was fine , tried to copy e drive but had errors, so i copied manually through xbrowser, locked the drive and booted to xbox and came up error 21, went back to lock unlock, and unlocked the drive and now it works took quite some time but im happy now, I would like to thank all that have helped. Happy Modding!

 

Glad to hear that everything worked ok! If you feel up to the challenge, you may choose to post a detailed recount of your experiences for others to share, I'm sure your experiences would be helpful to some!

 

also when c drive finished copying, I added shadowc from ndure to my c drive via xbrowser, not sure if that helped of not.

 

alright....im not new to this stuff but im having problems.....ive previously soft modded my xbox using the hot swap technique and xbhdm... well my old computer flaked out on me the other night, so i decided to open er up and see whats inside..well i found out that the hdd was a 40gig western digital wd400 , and its compatible with my xbox...so i decided to try and upgrade my hdd. Alright so i dowonload xbhdm , extracted it blah blah, and then ftp'd into my xbox to get the nessicary files. (c,d,eeprom).?. alright, i made the iso , burnt to a cd, and put it in my old pc.( i already formatted the 40gig, nothings on it). i hooked up the 40 gig, and turned on the pc.. it boots to the xbhdm screen , i hit option 1, it loads blah blah, i type in 'xboxhd' and it loads to the screen and says " the following drive was found on your primary master : WDCWD******. Could not access the drive on primary master. Your xbox drive is Locked!"

So im not to sure what to do , its a fresh new hdd, nothin on it, but it wont write any files to it ? do i have to unlocked the new hdd? if yes, how?!. its very frusterating, and if anyone could help me out that would be awesome.

 

Try doing a low-level secure wipe with DBAN, might help, surely couldn't hurt.

 

ok i did everything on the tutorial and i locked the new hdd. i put it in my softmodded xbox and i got call customer support

 

Is there an error code displayed?

 

no error code it just boots up and stays at the xbox screen for a min but the white microsoft never comes up and then i get error message

 

When you reach the "Call Customer Service" error screen, look in the top left for a number. A list of error codes and a brief explanation of what they mean can be found here.

Hope this helps!

 

there is no error code at the top left but thanks for the suggestion man

if there is no error code what does that mean??
i been trying to do this for 3 weeks and no luck yet can anyone tell me what im doing wrong. i coppied the C and E folders to the xboxhdm and the eeprom form my xbox. i madeabout 15 cd / dvds and i just cant see where im goin wrong.i have even watched a vid on how to do it and followed all the steps.

 

I can't seem to find much info on the dreaded no number error screen.... you might have a corrupted file in your C partition.... try copying the files again or find an alternative source.... I don't think the MS dashboard files are keyed to one specific xbox or another, only the eeprom and HD key are unique

 

this is what comes up. i see no error code to the top left. i have used my softmodded C and E files and some ones i found on the net and burned them to cds. but i keep ending up with this