Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

Have you tried using unmodded files... i.e. files from an unmodded xbox's C partition? You'll hafta reapply your mods, but that shouldn't be too difficult...

 

Also keep in mind, the E partition does not need any files for the xbox to boot. It will recreate all TDATA / UDATA, etc... once you've got your xbox booting, and mod it again, you can re-copy files, programs, etc.

 

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.

I know this is a repost but if someone knwos what the heck to do can you please reply to THIS subject.

 

Did you try wiping the drive with DBan?

 

how do i wipe it with Dban?

 

Dban can be found at http://dban.sourceforge.net and you can view the product's readme here

 

so this should unlock my hdd after i wipe it with dBan?.. hopefully wont get the " Xbox drive is locked" message?

 

It should, yes

 

ok, heres my suggestion, i just went through a similar ordeal, for your HDD to have the correct and full c and e drive files i had to use ndure downloaded from xbins, in ndure there is an optional version of evox, it is found in the ndts file of ndure, you can ftp this file to your e drive, on your xbox with you original drive open the default.xbe in the ndts folder, this will show all the files that are not shown on the ordinary version, then copy all the c and e drive files to a place where you can retreive them shortly, next prep the eeprom, on your original hard drive look up your system info, copy your hdd key, mac address, serial number, if you find your online key and wish to use it and your cofounder copy them also, however i didnt use either, download live info from xbins, i think its in eeprom tools, next unlock your new hdd, i found when it went to an error screen the only way i could get the xbox to boot was use an original xbox game and let it load (unlock the hdd) then disconnect and hot swap to your pc, NOTE: have the hdm disc in your pc with the eeprom in the eeprom folder, if you dont have this there it wont lock or unlock, you can find an eeprom in the ndure folder, also i dont know if it helped but i put shadowc from ndure onto my c-drive via ftp, so you should be able to turn on your xbox and your pc at the same time let both load but the pc has to have the hdm disc in it, antime after the xbox loads, disconnect the ide cable, but keep the power on and swap to your pc load option 3 from hdm,then choose unlockhd, power off the pc and connect your hdd back to your pc, connect it like a normal hdd to your pc, boot it up and open live info, find your hdd on there if it is your slave it will be device 1, fill the info in the best you can, you will need to find ur eeprom and use it and save the new info over it copy the eeprom to your hdm folder in the eeprom folder, copy all of your c and e drive files to hdm, i put shadowc c on my c drive(just enough space) like i said i dont know if it helped or not, after averything is in your hdm folder burn it, double check that all the file are right i wasted thirty discs right here, i found that you could add to the previous hdm the files were there but registered as 0kb, so each time i burnt a disc i created a new hdm from scratch each time, after it is burnt, power off your pc with the hdm disc in, power on your pc, NOTE: if your drive is locked you will have to boot it with an xbox game and hotswap to your pc, in hdm load option 1, if you have stuff on there already, wipe it in hdm, then build c drive(not sure what option it is) and also e drive, f and g will not be necessary for this hdd, after all loaded power off and reeboot, in hdm goto option 3 lock/unlock, if your hard drive is locked again you will need to unlock with the xbox again, when in hdm option 3 choose lock hdd, then try it in your xbox, if that doesnt work go back to option 3 and unlockhd and try in your xbox, all the tutorials tell you to lock your hhd or it wont work on your xbox, strangley enough my 250gb hdd is working now in my xbox UNLOCKED, dont know why but she works great, so try either, if you cant boot your xbox with a xbox disc, im not sure if it will work, but if the drive has the xbox files already just try unlocking and locking each in your xbox it might just have the files already, hopefully this helps, good luck and happy modding

 

yeah, sorry about that, i went into a ramble

 

robman let me know how you made out, if you need to unlock it just use option 3 from hdm and unlock, as long as the eeprom is there

 

alright, well thanks for that, i havent tryed it yet, im about too,... where exactly do i get the eeprom from...cause i made a xbhdm bootdisc already with the eeprom in it, and i chose option 3 and it didnt unlock when i typed unlockhd ...but i tryed updating my eeprom along time ago to get on live with config magic...so is there a new eeprom now or? crap this is confusing stuff..

 

hello again, you can get a eeprom file from config magic/data, it is in there, use the eeprom.bin file, it should be 256k, but don't use the v1.0 or v1.1 bin file. with the eeprom in place you should be able to lock and unlock your hdd with hdm, by the way could you boot your xbox with a original disc???

 

Hey guys... just bought myself a 200GB hard drive to use with my softmodded Xbox. I got my eeprom off my xbox, put it in the correct folder using XboxHDM, built the iso file, and burnt to a DVD. I took everything off my IDE channels, put the new hard drive on the primary master cable, put the dvd drive on a seperate channel, booted it up and it will not work. It gets me to the screen where you hit 1 to go to the VGA tools, but after that, when i type in xboxhd, it says there is no drive found on the primary master dev/a or some such. I know 100% i have this on the correct IDE channel, and it'll show up in my RAID bios screen(i am wondering if the fact that I have 2 IDE and 2 RAID channels may be the culprit here) is there something else I'm overlooking? I read through much of the thread but I couldn't figure out what i was doing wrong. i dont have another computer here at the apartment to try this out with other than my 2 laptops and obviously that isn't going to help me much.

are there any alternative ways or programs to format the HD?

help

 

Mbarry... your one step back from me lol..um did you try taking the IDE cable out of your cd rom drive and sticking it in the hdd? , and then putting the cd rom on the hdd ide? thats what i had to do. and make sure your new harddrive is set on cable selet . (last one) .
goodluck

 

so if i use unmodded files and use the xboxhdm it might work. ill try if i can find some man

 

with the xboxhdm DVD you get you may find that its the pc not copying the files back, FTP the originals from your back up's.

also for some unknown reason, the DVD xboxhdm makes will not work on some pc's, I got 5 and I can only use one to make an xbox hard drive, try redoing it on a differant pc set up

 

okay brendan01, i dont understand anything that you wrote up there....all i wanna know is how to unlock the NEW HDD(40GIG) so i can install the partitions and install the soft mod to it, you complicated things , or i just dont understand, what is nDUre, and WHY do i need it?

 

nDUre is a softmod auto installer for use on a xbox, I my self use AID 3.5 ^_^