Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

probably already been asked but how do you do it with unleash x?
thats what i have and im considering buying a bigger hdd

 

I did everything the guide said to do when making a new Xbox HDD for softmodded xbox's. When I copy games using DVD2Xbox they freeze up when I launch them. When I luanch Halo, the main menu screen comes up but when I try to login or load multiplayer, an error comes up and leads me back to the Halo menu. It seems like it's having trouble accessing a partition on the HD or some thing.... please help if any1 else has had this happen to them. Every single game I rip to the hard drive freezes once I try to play them!!

 

New Update, It's not just the games on the HDD. It does the same thing when i launch the game discs to play. I dont get it, Xebian works fine and everything else seems cool... Its only the games!!

 

bump..... how do u swap with unleash x?

could u boot it up, ftp all your important stuff to your box, put the new drive in while its turned on, and use the format drive option?

 

i don't know if im right or not but it might be your dvd rom for your xbox that is giving you the problems

it might not be copying all the files over

i have that prob once in a while so i just clean my rom and then everything is fine

 

clear your cache, worked for me

 

clear my cache? This could very well be the problem. How do i do this? Where are the files located on the hd to delete? as for the post above, No it cant be my dvd drive. Thing is every thing works fine with the original HDD. Im only getting freeze ups with my new HDD. It's a 120 GB SeaGate drive. I know it has to be supported becuase i looked at a website and no one else was having problems with it. Maybe I need a mod chip to get games to work with new HDD. IM thinking of getting an Xecuter V3 soon, hope fully it'll fix things.

 

what version of dvd2xbox you use?

 

OMFG!!!! I GOT MY NEW HARD DRIVE WORKING. Just had to clear the Cache in E:/CACHE AND EVERYTHING WORKS!!!!!!! The tutorial really should have included this info that roadtrash told me. THANK YOU!!!

 

thanx for helping everyone!

 

I personally prefer to start drive upgrades from scratch when possible.... I can use that time to upgrade xbmc and other things to new versions!

 

I'm having major problems upgrading to a seagate 750gb drive. First of all it is lockeable and is on lists and I have read topics about exact drive being used by others on xbox-scene. So no, "it's not lockeable" comments lol. My stock drive is softmodded with evox, dont know what version but it has been softmodded for about 2 years. 007 gamesave mod. I'm using xboxhdm, I have copied my c and e drives and my eeprom folder and burned them on disc, it loads up fine. I have created the password(option 6) then burned a floppy(option 7) I can't get it to read my eeprom from my floppy when i set my pc to boot from it to get the password. When I go into the "lockhd" and it gives me the -a -f -p options to type. no matter which one or what combination i try, it gives me bad command, or command not found, something like that. I can't get it to lock. I am about to lose my mind!!! I've tried everything I know to do. I have all hdd passwords written down, from evox, and config magic. Can somebody please help me? I've read this whole thread from start to finish and many others! Thanks!! I paid almost $300 for this drive, I have to figure this out!!! lol HELLP!! This is a great forum. Most everybody seems very helpful and not as many flamers as xbox-scene. Hard to get any help there.....

 

sorry, posted a correction to the above post before i found the edit icon....

 

type this in dos "hdlock -a" should do it for you thats what i did to lock it, to unlock it type "hdunlock -a"

 

I did that, I tried every combination...lockhd-a, lockhd, -a,lockhda etc....it just says "not a valid command"....thanks for trying though. maybe somebody else will come along that has had this same problem..thanks

 

my xbox will not power up anymore if i buy a used xbox can i swap out the hard drives and just use the one i bought

 

try burning the dvd+ disk slower even slowest that way the data reads you need the eeprom and u can use a upper case or lower case e i used both and sometimes one disk works and one dont. thats what i do when i get that problem.

 

you can't swap hard drives because each eeprom matches different motherboards. so take out the motherboard and hard drive to swap. if thats your need. but, i would thing that would be a waste of time considering you bought a new xbox or a extra one. it would be too much work

 

hi,

I have two xbox, one with modchip and 120 gb hd, and the other one with SID 3.0 softmod and the original hd. First i try to swap the discs but it doesnt work, later... after many attempts and configuration changes :-(... i decide to format my 120 gb, and left it like a new one.. then i follow the tutorial to upgrade the hd, ( boot with a linux image, creating partitions, formating, copying the c: and e: partition from the sofmod xbox disc, and run lockhd -a) all seen to be ok.. but the softmod xbox doesnt start, without running the lockhd -a i just got the microsoft error 5 screen and if i ran the lockhd -a i got the microsoft error 6 screen

Im using the eeprom from the sofmod Xbox. After run the lockhd -a it says that the command was completed succesfully but in the rest of the information i received this values : Security -> "Yes",
Lock -> "No". (i dont remember exactly the field names, but are some of the fields in the report showed after run lockhd -a). and if i run unlockhd -a only the security field changes to "No"

what can i do?