Hi I have an HDD from a hardmodded drive, but my chip fried and messed up a piece of my mobo, instead of repairing the mobo (because I am not so great at it) I would like to put that hdd into a softmodded xbox. Is this possible? How do I go about it?
if the drive is locked, you can't. if you ran an unlocked drive from your chip (as i do), just put it into another chipped xbox. then run the drive of the chip, it should boot. another way to test in a non-chipped/softmodded xbox: if you put the hdd into another non-chipped/sofmodded xbox, and you get error 5, then the drive is unlocked and you can put it into another xbox. (you need to lock the hdd to that 'new' xbox using the eeprom.bin of that 'new' xbox. ==> hdm tutorial to do that/instructions. use the search button) if you get error 6, then it means that the harddrive is locked and it is locked to the 'old/fried' xbox it came out of. you can try the standard password, xboxscene if the drive was locked with the hdm program. maybe you can unlock it that way, and use the hdm program to lock it to the 'new/softmodded' xbox. if all fails and you didn't make a copy of the eeprom.bin file: you have to get the eeprom.bin file. for that you need to build the eeprom reader, that can read eeproms even if the xbox is fried so it doesn't even power on. btw. if you made a copy of the eeprom.bin file, you can unlock you harddrive using the hdm tutorial. then lock the harddrive again with the eeprom.bin of the new/softmodded files. then you can keep all your file etc. that is the easiest way
Thanks I will try This, it's pretty much what I was hoping you would say. another way to test in a non-chipped/softmodded xbox: if you put the hdd into another non-chipped/sofmodded xbox, and you get error 5, then the drive is unlocked and you can put it into another xbox. (you need to lock the hdd to that 'new' xbox using the eeprom.bin of that 'new' xbox. ==> hdm tutorial to do that/instructions. use the search button)
don't know, but remember you need to reformat the external drive (need to be fatx, normal fat/fat32 will not be read by the xbox). windows will not be able to read that format (fatx), you will need a program for that. but maybe xbmc can read a fat32/ntfs usb drive connected directly, don't know for sure because i never tried it (don't think it will, but if it does transfer speed is slow. it is usb 1.0!) for that reason, i believe a NAS will be much cheaper and more handy. it is faster and you have better access to the files on it.
Thanks, I did read some more on tutorials of how to do it, and running an external through the controller port apparently only reads at 4gbs. It tries to read it as a memory card, Just as an FYI Thanks again for help
