Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

how fast did you burn the cd and what type of cd did you use

i used a dvdplus and i burned my cd at 6speed(slowest i can go)
after that i set my c spot up with the softmod already installed and then e with saves and addded apps to f

in dos i hooked up the new hd as master and let the cd do what it needed to format,install, then lock. after that i set the hd as (cs) and not master anymore then i turned on the xbox and everything took for me. i am useing a 180 gig hd and i have set up f and g drives

don't know if this helps but thats wut i did

 

hi, thanks for your help, but i did all the things you said and followed the tutorial but my xbox still doesnt start.. :-(

 

Well I have a question, I have my softmod installed on my new hd, its a 75 gig western digital and i looked it up on the hard drive compatibility, its like number 3 on the list, and i have it all ready and its on here, but the thing's that it says that it is a 6 gig hard drive instead of a 75. something wrong?

 

You likely need to format your F partition. A quick google search brings the following info: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xbox+format+F&btnG=Google+Search

Hope this helps!

 

is there a tutorial on how to install a larger harddrive with unleashx instead of evox?

 

i need help im trying to lock the hard drive and i keep getting this message

"Drive on Primary Master is frozen.. cannot change security status of a frozen drive!.. try to disable "automatic detection" on the primary ide channel in your PC Bios and reboot"

i been searching and reading alot i tried almost everything i did try to do it on a 2nd pc and still the same thing the closest thing in the bios settings i found was ''use automatic mode''i disable it and it didnt change anything,

i been on this issue for days still the hdd wont lock please can anyone help me with this problem??

im using a emachines pc by the way and the hdd im using is a Seagate 160 GB Model St3160021A

 

you need evox so just do what i did put evox in you apps folder and open it

 

did you check to see if the hard drive is lockable
i never had that problem so thats the only idea i can think of as long as u get a mod chip you really dont need to worry about locking your hd inless your going on xbl

 

yeah i check and it is lockable well i softmodded my xbox and about xbox live im not worry about it at all so is a modchip required?? forgive me for the noob question lol

 

yeah i check and it is lockable well i softmodded my xbox and about xbox live im not worry about it at all so is a modchip required?? forgive me for the noob question lol[/quote]


yeah just get the chip and then after that you should be able to start restoreing the xbox read about the chips b4 you pick one you get and make sure it matches the version of xbox you have. also i would make sure that it has sometype of ftp access so you can start putting your files in the hd incase you dont have any files on the hd to begin with

 

I have an eeprom for a xbox and the old drive died last night, how do I use xboxhdm to get the eeprom file from a floppy disk? I got a dvd for a different xbox and the files are just the same and all I want to do is change the eeprom to the hard drive lock so the drive works in the busted xbox.

(if that makes sense)

 

my steps. laoded the softmod with NUDURE. It makes you back up the system. once done i copied from the xbox the following diretories

/e/backups/eeprom/backup/eeprom.bin inot the directory on my pc xboxhdm/linux/eeprom

then i copied over the c: and e: from my xbox into xboxhdm\linux

then i created the .iso burned it.

put the new hd into the computer it formatted and loaded everything. I locked it just fine. but when i put it into my xbox it loads up and stays at the XBOX splash screen then goes to error 13. any ideas?

 

I unlocked my original xbox hard drive with the unlock -a with xboxhd and it worked fine so that leads me to believe the eeprom that i copied to the cd is working since it unlocked the original. but i did notice the hard drive password key was different from the new hard drive key. do they need to be the same?

 

I had a similar problem, to get around it I went in the bios and detected the drive, then using the XBOXHDM disk I deleted the FATX table then rebuilt the xbox drive from scratch, this not only unfroze the drive but it put the proper key on the xbox drive ^_^

NOTE-: you may need to use a different pc to get this trick to work.

 

When i boot up the pc it detects the drive.

The weird thing is when it locks the new hard drive from the eeprom i get a different password hd key compared to the original.
So after it says that it is secure but not locked i reboot go into dos mode and run ATAPWD and it says it is locked when it is not. so I reboot unlock it through linux. then i lock it by entering the password from the original hard and place it in the xbox and i went from error 13 to error 6 which means it can not unlock the new hard drive. How can you tell if you can not lock a hard drive?

 

This is what i got when i ran lockhd -a

HDD Serial VNC402A4DLT6PG
HDD MODEL IC35L080AVVA07-0
HDD Key *****************
HDD Password from eeprom **************

ready to attempt locking
are you sure you want to continue? y
Master password XBOXSCENE
command completed successfully

HDD Serial VNC402A4DLT6PG
HDD firmware VA40A521
HDD MODEL IC35L080AVVA07-0
HDD Key *****************
HDD Password from eeprom **************
security supported yes
security enabled yes
security locked no
secuirty frozen no
security count exp np

This is what i get eveyrtime. I am assuming this drive can not be locked. I will try a different system and go from there.

 

I get that every time but when I place it in the xobx it is locked for some reason.

 

Hi there,

i'm having problems following this tutorial i dont know whether i just burned the disc on too fast of a speed or what but it gives me the image when booting the computer up and when i press 1 to boot VGA Console with Xbox-Drive Utilities it just reboots my computer and brings me back to the opening screen again. all options do this for me, i dont know what is wrong?

plz help thank you

 

im using UnleashedX on my softmodded Box. I made the XboxHDM boot disc and everything works fine. I build it from scratch and everything goes smoothly. When i type the "reboot" command it wont reboot. right after it says flushing drives it goes nuts. i turn the power off and boot the disc up again and when i try to lock it with lockhd -a it says are you sure i say yes and it says aborting. Ive locked it with other programs(DOS locking tools) but it won't boot in my xbox(error 6) then it wont let me unlock the drive at all. this is happened with 2 different WD hard drives ive used( each were said to be compatible) i can unlock the drives using HDD unlock wizard but it cost a fee. Does anyone know why or what i can do to solve this problem???

 

Here is what I did: I used xboxhdm 1.9 to make a boot disk I followed all the steps correctly and I've repeated them numerous times trying to fix my problem. I chose to make the xbox hd from scratch.

I installed all my files and locked my hdd at the end with the hdlock -a command. I plugged it into my xbox and I get an error 06 which is the xbox not being able to unlock the hdd.

I used flashfxp for the ftp and my dashboard is unleashx. I think the reason is that I am copying the shadow files instead of the real files. How do I get around this? I have been searching for days with no resultsor confusing ones at the very least.

I found this as well but I have no idea how to do the mount at all (I don't even know if it means from xbox or PC or whether to unlock it with configmagic final) I'm guessin on the computer