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benbon

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« on: November 19, 2004, 10:05:00 PM »
If you want to play on xbox live with a big hard drive and not get banned this is what you need to do.

1st. Use a slayer disk to make you Xbox hard drive stock.

2nd. Open xtools and load whatever bios you use (ex: X2 4981) then go to the section "Boot Partitions And Executables" make the 1st boot look for: F:\evoxdash.xbe.

3rd. Flash you Modchip with the new bios.

4th. Put your dashboard in the root of F: drive with the .ini, like you would on C: drive, then put all your games, apps, emulators and anything that is not stock to the xbox hard drive on the F: drive.

5th. Lock you big hard drive with Config Magic.

6th. Now turn off your modchip, load your xbox live, let it do all its updates. Pop in you halo 2 game, It will do the another update - This is the update that scans your xbox for anything that shouldn't be on the HD.

7th. Your ready to play on Xbox live with your modchip off and a big Hard drive!

Note: Never play Halo 2 with the modchip on, even if your not connected online, I think it will scan you HD and when you do go online it will send the info to M$. If you want to play halo 2 off of the hard drive, copy it to the HD with dvd2xbox, then FTP to you xbox, go to F:/games/halo2/ and delete update.xbe and you should be fine.

The reason M$ cant tell you have a big hard drive is cuz when you xbox boots with the xbox bios it doesnt recognize the F drive, so there is no way M$ can tell if you have a big HD, what it looks for are files that should not be there (dashboards, games, emulators, font hacks, etc...)

I play on xbox live this way and i have not gotten banned.

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benbon

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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2004, 10:18:00 PM »
Live I said, Im still not banned...

This is what i have.
Green Xbox
Xecuter 2.3B pro flashed with X2 4981
Maxtor 160GB HD locked.

If I get banned I will let you guys know.
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shanafan

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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2004, 10:20:00 PM »
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This is the update that scans your xbox for anything that shouldn't be on the HD.

Huh? Please confirm this.

Thanks
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shanafan

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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2004, 10:22:00 PM »
QUOTE (prplehz @ Nov 20 2004, 12:15 AM)
What about game saves on E?  Emulators and such...

benbon, answer that question. Such programs, like those above, store saved files on E:

Follow up questions to this, um, tutorial, since you are fully sure Xbox Live scans HDs
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2004, 10:24:00 PM »
i have large harddrive stuff all over the c and e been playing halo2 online since it came out ...not banned........yet wink.gif
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benbon

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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2004, 10:31:00 PM »
Im just telling you what I did and it worked. It it looks for game saves then I would be banned. If it look for modchips I would be banned.

The update that Halo 2 does is what is getting people banned.
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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2004, 10:41:00 PM »
Well here is my story.

Xbox V1.0
X2.2pro
X2 bios 4981.06 with live blocker
200Gig Maxtor swapped in July Played live up until october before first bannig wave
Stayed off Live october - november 16 alltogether.

Original HD was on live on and off with Different GamerTags for 2+ years.
Original HD had stuff all over.

Never Been Banned with either HD.

Ugraded HD Has all apps and dashes on F:/
Before trying Halo 2 live I formated C: and E:.
Extracted Slayers 2.5 on PC and FTP'd Retail C: and E: files to Xbox.
Turned Chip off, Put memory card with live account save.
Put Halo 2 in go to live tab put password in and took live update.
Played Halo 2 on live.

Never Played Halo 2 with chip on.

3 Days later.

Deleted all saves of game that where played with chip on (no new Live games played from backups).
Restarted Xbox With chip off.
Put memory card with live account in.
Go to live tab.
Recieve network error message.
Go to trouble shoot .
Get Modified Xbox Message.
No Live Account Found.

What did I do wrong? What theory does this lean towards?
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leo5111

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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2004, 10:42:00 PM »
hate to take a pin to your balloon again but i have 4 friends all larger drives all have stuff all over c and e not banned yet common link among us??? we all have xectuter 2 series chips and all of us put in our bigger drives before we ever went on live...BANG!!!....sorry about your balloon..  biggrin.gif
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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2004, 10:48:00 PM »
QUOTE (benbon @ Nov 20 2004, 12:08 AM)
The reason M$ cant tell you have a big hard drive is cuz when you xbox boots with the xbox bios it doesnt recognize the F drive, so there is no way M$ can tell if you have a big HD, what it looks for are files that should not be there (dashboards, games, emulators, font hacks, etc...)

querying HD make, model and serial from firmware?
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shanafan

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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2004, 11:06:00 PM »
QUOTE (moksi @ Nov 20 2004, 01:03 AM)
After playing Halo2, from a HDD image (EvoX XBCopy) I noticed the x and y drives have files that remain after rebooting,  and might cause a problem in the case of a HDD scan?

There are always files in the cache drives. That isn't anything new. Even non-Live games puts files there.
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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2004, 11:57:00 PM »
QUOTE (shanafan @ Nov 20 2004, 01:09 AM)
There are always files in the cache drives. That isn't anything new. Even non-Live games puts files there.

and they always stay there until some other game calls for a format of the cache drives, this way if you play the same game over and over and over again (halo2 anyone) you dont have to sit and wait while it copies junk to the cahce drives

just another "little thing" that makes xbox better than the rest
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« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2004, 01:43:00 AM »
yeah id say this is a bogus theory

i just signed up for live not too long ago..

im still pretty sure if your xbox has never been on live.. and u sign up with a larger hard drive.. dont matter the contents... ull be safe.. long as uve never been on live before with a different setup on that specific xbox...

i havent been banned yet.. i got an x2.3b lite with a 160gb hdd... i took the latest halo2 update.. and havent been banned.. ive played the french version of halo2 and the dnl usa release...

oh btw... live is wicked smile.gif
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shanafan

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« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2004, 03:08:00 AM »
This, um, tutorial, will be locked in due time.. just need the original poster to acknowledge his tutorial, while, just isn't any good.
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shanafan

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« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2004, 03:08:00 AM »
QUOTE (shanafan @ Nov 20 2004, 05:11 AM)
This, um, tutorial, will be locked in due time.. just need the original poster to acknowledge his tutorial, while, just isn't any good.

Eh.. I am the moderator, closed.
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