Want to restore your Microsoft Dashboard to it's Retail State? Read Inside.

thanks Mik3h,

Hello,
well i dont know what to do, i used this method to unlock my hdd
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Unlocking Seagate Xbox Hard Drive.htm
it did unlock my hdd and i installed a fresh copy of C to partition 3 from your dash.

i dont know what or how to get my EEPROM.bin or where its located,
any help is greatly helpful all i need to do now is relock my hdd then hopefully it'll work.

*crosses fingers*

thanks in advance

 

I don't think you had to unlock the drive. You can do it with a file explorer like I mentioned previously. Try re-locking and let me know how you get on.

 

thanks mik3h,
thats just it though i dont know how to relock the drive, and i dont know where my eeprom.bin is located,

can you add me to msn messenger??
blackwinterday1@msn.com

thanks man

 

Ok so my friend gave me a modded xbox i modded halo 2 before every thing was fine and my xbox broke later.

So i was trying to take off the mod on the xbox when i took it off when i start my xbox nothing comes up so i reinstaled the mod and put in the ms dash bored i can see it now only with the mod when ever i take the mod off i cant see it. The e drive was full of all mod stuff so i tried to delete the e drive i backed the stuff up. but i cant put it back on and the spilnter cell disk works still but no linux file any more...

Can some one help me?


Or am i fucked?

 

hey mate, my xbox still runs evox, but it no longer runs ms dash, nd when ii ftp, theres nothing in c and i cant put anything in c

please help

 

i tried to softmod my xbox and i get error 5 then i get passed that and then i get error 16 i cant ftp in to my xbox can you pm me with more help with the 2 method

 

name0 - You'll have to find a way of putting the splinter cell file on. If you can load the modded dash, you can download a tool called - "XBSM - Xbox Save Manager" which lets you connect to your Xbox and transfer save files, which you could do with the splinter cell file. Otherwise youll need to get action replay with the memory card or something an find a way to transfer the game save on.

trav_555 - What do you mean when you FTP it doesn't let you transfer files? Are you sure you are connectd? What FTP software are you using?

ssbs - You have two choices. Either - -Get a friend with a modded xbox.
-Unlock his hdd with eeprom management from a slayer evo-x cd.
-Than, place his hdd in your xbox.
-Boot with your chip on.
-Now the xbox DOES find a dashboard when you boot in original mode and you can set the time in the msdashboard clock settings.
-Shut off xbox and remove your friends hdd
-PLace his hdd back in his xbox and lock it again
-Install your hdd
-(clock has been set) So boot up with slayer cd.
-Install normally whatever you wanna install
-lock hdd

ie. You have a modchip Which will not boot your friends xbox (1.3) - Prepare the boot CD with the required setup to flash your friends modchip with the 4979 bios. Make damned sure you know what you are doing here as if you mess it up you may have just messed up your friends xbox. Assuming this first flash went ok, remove the chip from your friends xbox, insert it into your own and boot to the same CD. FTP into the xbox and repair/replace the dashboard files. Sometimes if you cannot get the dash to work, but you have a backup at another location it may get a little more complicated. (it did for me) In this case you need to be able to boot at another location but your friend will obviously not let you keep his modchip indefinitely. In this case after booting your PC with your friends modchip, you hotswap the chip with your own and flash your chip. Your chip will not boot your xbox from a CD.

B. Your modchip can boot your friends xbox. Insert your chip into friends PC, boot to CD, flash modchip. Insert modchip back into your xbox, boot to CD and FTP into the xbox to repair/replace the dashboard files.

Or, if you are using the modchip, this should let you bypass the Xbox bios, with the chip's own. But are you using a softmod?

 

ty how to you think it wood work if i put the ms dash files on the hdd with explorer 360 and i dont have e backup i have herd that they are not that big of a thing

 

If you haven't already tried it, then yes, trying putting the dashboard files and using a file explorer to transfer them to the C drive.

 

i did but im runing vista and win i opend 360 it stoped working i have used all the file explorers i can find but they all stop working or cant find fatx drive and the hard drive is unlock i used my frends computer that is runing xp and ran fatxexlorer it opend the drive and then stoped working to so im out of ideas. if some one has a suggestions please post it.


thank you all for the help

 

2 issues one the differcnce seen here:





and well i cant get to my c drive in ANY other dashboard other than the SID menuread here and cant get to the ms dashboard in UX,XBMC and Evox

Will this still help me?

 

your link to your dashboard is down

 

There is a lot of junk on your C drive which plain and simple shouldn't be there. And a load of stuff which should be there is missing.

I would restore a factory dash and softmod again.

Mike.. is that a factory set of dash files there??

 

Yep, sure is

 

Hi,

So I am having a pretty similar issue here too. I was trying to soft mod my box with AID v4.20 and was getting error after error after error. At last I began the process over by formatting the drive. Re installed and got another error, so I gave up with that and was going to do it on my own through evox's update. I told AID to restore my MS dash, it did something and now the soft mod is gone, and I have no dash. All I get is the error screen. I can load a game, I tried reloading the game save which I still have on the card, but when i do I get the error screen. I don't know if my dash is out of date which was a problem in the beginning even though I updated it. I tried getting on live but also no luck there it would not connect. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks

 

It's because you formatted it, thus loasing the dashboard, lol. I think your only choice is to hotswap the HDD now.

Follow this gide : http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/332766

Let me know how you get on.

 

Ya I realized that it was because I had formatted but after I had I used AID v4.20 to reinstall the MS dash which it said it did, but didn't. It didn't do anything for me, as far as I am concerned that whole App/Installer sucked. But anyways...

I did a hotswap yesterday and it did work. I used another tutorial that involved unplugging the xbox's cd rom drive to unlock it and then used xboxhdm to rebuild the xbox drive from my pc. Since then I have re-soft modded without AID and have had no problems.

This is pretty much the tutorial I used. He wrote a more indepth one, but I cant find it. If you want to check it out, here's the link:

http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/postt7728.html

Thanks

 

Hello, I am getting the error 21 when I try to install my softmod. But it doesnt continue after I turn the xbox off. It still loads my MS dashboard fine, and plays games, but it continually gives me the error 21 only when I try to install the softmod.

Should I restore my MS Dashboard to retail state? Its currently on the most up to date version.

 

Yes, I'd probably give it a try. What version of softmod installer deluxe are you using to install it?

 

Well, actually. I went a whole different route, and have used the awesome hotswap method and tut. on here, and have full and successfully fixed and repaired my xbox hd, and then I copied my buddies C and E drive over. My box is fully softmodded now, thanks a ton to you guys at afterdawn. WOOT!