Upgrading HD on Softmodded Xbox Tutorial

oh and to the person who wanted someone to post a dl of the cd i can do it for you but you still need the eeprom and you would have to put it on a floppy when you go to lock the hdd

man thats **** i cant post more than once in 3 min cuz im a noobie i resent that oh well i guess i can wait lol

ok in my waiting i found the prgm it is called liveinfo and you can get it off of xbins if you know how if not give me an aim addy or something and ill send it to you

 

ok I have liveinfo and it doesnt have instrustions, I am a no0b sorry but do I need to connect my stock xbox hdd to my pc now to read the eeprom from it? I tried ftping the backup from the xbox to my pc but it doesnt seem to work when I load it

 

blah I just put it back in my PC screw it lol thanx tho for trying to help guess I cant change my hdd

 

I must b the only person in the world that didnt get this tutorial to work. i did EVERYTHING perfect and it didnt work. the only conclusion i can think is that i am using a 1.6b and it wont work with the 1.6b eeprom. i am goin to try it with a 1.0 tomorrow and if that doesnt work ill b pissed i got. it will boot the disk to the menu but when i press 1 and hit enter it just resets my pc. and it does this no matter what
im stumped. but is there a reason it wont work with a 1.6b eeprom?

 

no i dont understand why it wouldnt work try reburning the disc w/o the eeprom on it (put the eeprom on a floppy) and make sure your jumper settings are correct for the hdd (master or maybe CS, ummmmmmm lemme see wut else, nope nothing comes to mind. IF you cant get this to work try leaving off your E drive when you burn it

 

I'm having a similar problem with using xbhdm. I want to upgarde to a bigger hard drive on w/ a softmod. I followed the tutorial and softmodded my box. I then burned xbhdm, put the c and e that I backed up along with the eeprom on the disk. When it booted up to linux I press 1 and it says looking for cdrom tons of times then says can't find. I don't know why because it does boot from the cd. I tried it with the cd on primary master and primary slave. I also tried burning the cd over again. I then put the hard drive into a modded xbox and ran slayer 2.6 on it (I was getting fed up with the non working cd)

I then locked the drive and tried it in the soft modded xbox but had no luck.

Pretty much my question is what can I do to get this bigger hard drive into my soft mod xbox. Is there another way to do it without xbhdm? I'm starting to get grey hair lol.

Thanks!

Rob

 

try putting your cdrom drive on the secondary line thats probably your problem, and now your going to have to unlock the hdd before you can use the cd, if that doesnt work try a different computer

 

Alright I'll try doing that. So should I rebuild the xbox hard drive (option 1) and start from scratch? Also will the unlock code be different from 1 xbox to another? This was originally a blank hard drive so unless I put it into a modded xbox I dont see how I would get the unlock/lock code from it in the first place. Also would the "swap trick" be beneficial to me at all?

 

Tried putting the hd on primary and cdrom on secondary but still no luck. I threw it into a modded xbox and locked it using config magic off the slayer's cd and still didn't work. Any ideas?

 

I softmodded my 1.6 Xbox just fine. Works like a champ. I followed ALL the steps. When I tried putting the new HDD in the Xbox, It gives me the ol' FRAG light.

The original HDD works like a champ, but when I put in the Maxtor 250Gig, it doesn't work. Any ideas?

I have also tried to make a direct copy. This didn't work, either. The only thing that I can come up with is that the xbhdm is not using the same lock code (which I verify when I lock the original and the new HDD). I tell it to lock the disk with the eeprom file thingie that is burned on the CD; It locks the original with this file, but when I try the same process on the new HDD it gets the code from who knows where (different set of numbers).

No matter how many times I lock the original HDD, it uses the same code (as it should) and it runs my dashboards just fine. The box just doesn't want to accept this new HDD.

Any ideas? Do you need more info?

 

ok the password used to lock the hdd is genertated from the hd serial and the info in the eeprom it doesnt get the pswd directly from the eeprom. Also what error is is giving you when you start up the box with the new hdd? Make sure that you put the jumper back on cable select.

And Parat you are going to have to unlock the hdd before you can use it again. As said b4 try a different computer if that doesnt work ummmm lemme know and ill make a cd for you and send it to you or something

 

Ok. Thank you for clearing up why my numbers are different. Yes, I did remember to put the new HDD on Cable Select. I don't remember what the error code was. I will have to pop it back in and find out, tonight.

Be back soon.

 

still no luck. Tried other computers, tried master and slave primary and secondary (with the hd unlocked). Tried even this:

"note for xboxhdm incase of image is nonbootable or you get cannot found linux cd-rom error ( I got): in new xboxhdm 1.7 ( downloaded from both xbox-scene and xbins, xboxhdm>linux>isolinux>boot.cat is named as linux.boot but the make-iso-win hasnt ben updated, change xboxhdm>linux>isolinux>linux.boot to boot.cat to fix the problem"

Which I found on xboxhdm for dummies http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=244043

Still getting no linux cd found. Tried formatting with slayers 2.6 then locking with a modded box but still NOTHING! Checked the hd compatibility and people said they've gotten it to work

any one know what to do?

 

footbal95-
K... The error that I am getting with the new drive is a 6.

I am going remove my softmod and start from square 1. I will install the softmod and do the xboxhdm1.9 thing, while I wait for a response.

 

ok parat maybe try an older version of xboxhdm.

and dj error 6 is a cannot unlock hdd error make sure you are using the correct eeprom the is a prgms i think its called config magic that will give you the pswd that the xbox will use to unlock your new hdd try that and make sure your getting the same pswd from both prgms

 

I have been using the xboxhdm 1.9. The linux ISO contains the eeprom that is contained in the backup folder. I have pulled off multiple copies of the eeprom with different methods. They all are the exact same (I opened them in notepad and compared them character for character).

I will try some other methods to obtain the eeprom. Every disc that have burned will unlock and lock the original HD, so... I will keep trying.

Have a new problem, though. Now, for some reason, I can not unlock my Maxtor. I can't do it with the manual password using unlockx or unlockhd -a, -p, -f.

I hope I don't have a 250Gig paperweight. Everytime I "Unlock" it, it says that the process was successful, but when I restart the Linux proggies, it tells me that it is still locked. Sooo... the substitution deal is on hold, while I try to figure out how to unlock my maxtor that was supposidly locked with the same password that I have been using to lock and unlock my xbox's hdd. DOH!

 

Sounds like a nightmare and i'm upgrading my HD soon as the HD arrives :/

 

I don't even know why I bothered with this whole softmod deal. I have had 100% success with Xeniums. Dang. I gotta find a way to unlock my Maxtor 250GB.

 

oy ummmm try a diff computer dj also about a page or so back i wrote what i had to do to softmod my box. I also posted a link to a site thattells you confirmed lockable hdd's make sure yours is on there.

 

Yeah, I know it is lockable, because I have the exact same drive in my chipped box, and it works like a champ. I can lock that one and boot the retail bios.

I just don't understand how I locked and unlocked it before, and all of a sudden it won't let me unlock it. lol

I can't try another puter yet, because I can't get it unlocked. DOH. Do you know of any programs that will let me unlock this booger? The code that I locked it with won't unlock it.