QUOTE('stevenpiper16')
If it's not so much as booting a disk though, you got rid of more than just XBMC's xbe. If you have a disk in the drive it will boot to disk before it searches for an xbe on the harddrive.
Unless the BIOS is configured specifically not to do that.
QUOTE(-89- @ Dec 1 2007, 07:59 AM)
No error code pops up, so I can't hotswap the drive.
You're not supposed to wait for the error code. By then the drive has been relocked (as I understand it).
If you're really not happy about your hotswapping abilities build an
EEPROM reader. Took me an hour and $10, so it's not that hard.
Though the drive may not be locked at all. In a flashed/chipped console it doesn't have to be, so if you're not sure just try shoving it in a PC and have Xplorer360 take a look at it. As mentioned, non-stock drives usually aren't locked and so do not require hotswapping/EEPROMs anyway.
Given that your console won't boot from disc and can't be load a file manager/FTP server of some sort, your options are:
1) Booting with the tray open. Worth a shot.
2) Steal a DVD drive from someone else's X-Box and try it in yours. You might be able to get that EvoX boot disc working this way, assuming your BIOS doesn't have the DVD boot disabled entirely.
3) Use Qwix to create a bootable EvoX disc, but rename "default.xbe" to "rescue.xbe". This is what your BIOS is supposed to try to load when it can't find a dash on the HDD, EVEN IF DVD booting is disabled. I doubt this'll work as I still say you didn't delete XBMC's "default.xbe" (so the BIOS thinks the dashboard is fine), but for the sake of completeness...
4) Take the HDD out and put it in a PC. If the drive turns out to be locked, either hotswap or build the EEPROM reader.
5) Take the HDD out and put it in another X-Box which is chipped or flashed, but running some BIOS other then X2 5000+. Should be able to boot from the DVD drive then (assuming the drive isn't locked).
6) Install a modchip and flash it with a BIOS other then X2 5000+.