Hi, i originally replied in another thread without thinking it was about softmod here it is: Hi, first post as i only just got an xbox for my kids, its got the xecuter chip in it but only has the stock 8 gig (tho its 10gig) hard drive. My question is, are all hard drives (ide) compatible with the xbox? as i have a 40 gig IBM here that would be easily enough for this xbox, basically want to be able to use dvd2xbox for games and then FTP them over the pc whenever i can be bothered, but i have followed the tutorial, i made the cd etc, the partitions were made all files copied over from the c & e partitions (i backed up the stock hard drive and put them on the boot cd) used the eeprom.bin that i had got from config magic and locked the drive, everything seemed to go well. However, after connecting the drive upto the xbox (with the chip turned off) it got to the xbox screen but stopped there, no microsoft logo appeared, no error screen or code, nothing. I turned it off and turned the chip on, turned on xbox, and it also did nothing just stopped on the xecuter loading screen. I had read that if a chip was present in the xbox the hard drive need not be locked, so i unlocked it again and then tried it, but no no avail. Also tried cloning the stock drive onto the 40 gig, but the same thing has happened. So thought i'd post here for any suggestions.
Since then i have tried using slayers auto installer but the same thing happens, and cd doesnt boot. It boots fine with stock drive and have just tried an 80 gig out of my kids pc and it boots fine with that, they are both 7200rpm drives whereas the 40 gig i want to put in it is only 5400 rpm and takes a lot longer just to spin up which has led me to speculate that maybe the drive isn't reporting itself to teh xbox in time maybe??!? has anyone else had this prob? would appreciate any help at all thanks
