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Ha|o

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« on: November 10, 2004, 06:31:00 PM »
I'm starting to believe more and more in the whole "married" idea. I went on live with my stock HDD, then swapped it for a larger one and went on live again, now I'm banned. What if I was to take a friends old stock HDD (that he HAD connected to Xbox Live with) and stick it in my Xbox after I get a new eeprom? MS shouldn't be able to ban me since I am using a stock HDD (what if my first stock hdd broke or whatever and I needed a new one???). Or would they see it as a HDD that had previously connected to live with a different eeprom and ban it???

Has anyone that has NOT swapped HDDs been banned?
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Ha|o

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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2004, 06:38:00 PM »
Yes Andy, it's me....I don't know if your stock HDD will work since you've been on live before. I want to know what other people think...Maybe it will, I'm not sure.
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Ha|o

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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2004, 06:46:00 PM »
So you were banned then changed the HDD and EEPROM and got unbanned??
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2004, 06:48:00 PM »
yes after I had been banned I changed them to  a new EEPROM and orignal HDD.
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Ha|o

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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2004, 06:48:00 PM »
Did you first sign on to live with your stock HDD, swap it to a large Hdd, get banned, then swap back to the stock HDD and get a new eeprom??
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Ha|o

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« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2004, 06:55:00 PM »
Ok that makes more sense. I just need to know if anyone went on live WITH their stock, got a bigger HDD, went on live and got banned, swapped back to stock and got a new eeprom and what the result of that was....
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lazarus18

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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2004, 07:09:00 PM »
See about midway down page 6 of this thread, we're discussing this very thing.

http://forums.xbox-s...ic=299557&st=75

-Rob
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Ha|o

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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2004, 07:10:00 PM »
That's what I'm planning on doing. I'm going to buy 2 of them and use one of them to try a stock HDD that HAS been on live before. If I get banned then I'll buy a brand new stock HDD that is "right outta the box" on ebay or something and try that. If anyone else has tried this let me know....
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tribefiend

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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2004, 07:29:00 PM »
I'll be interested to see how this works out for you.  I am in same situation.  Stock hdd, signed up with xbl, switched to large hard drive...banned.  I have acquired a new eeprom, and have my stock hard drive.  Don't want to get rebanned with a new eeprom and original xbl stock hard drive.
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Ha|o

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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2004, 07:37:00 PM »
lol, what do you have to lose? Go for it....
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2004, 07:54:00 PM »
The HD serial is on the HD controller chip some where and the eeprom is unique to every xbox and I'm sure there is some crazy uncrackable in this consoles usable life algorithim involved in generating that unique ID.
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