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[GS]EqUaTe

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« Reply #45 on: November 28, 2004, 08:24:00 AM »
Sure, I'll do that in a few minutes - just need to back up my saves.

What did you use to LLF the disk, and what make is it?
EDIT: With or without F/G when formatting as new? (ie format as stock, or format w/ F/G for mod stuff?)
Does anyone know if DISK.BIN is erased/nullified in some way if you change your partitions? For that matter, anyone know an easy way to change partitions on the xbox w/o doing a complete new install?

If it doesn't work, I'll just clean my old stock disk and use it for live.. get an hdd swap thing or something...
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« Reply #46 on: November 28, 2004, 09:28:00 AM »
QUOTE (-Gadget- @ Nov 28 2004, 05:22 PM)
well first u gotta get ya xbox into a state that u know they like.
so first.... do what gerzand, and xionanx are doing
get a previously banned xbox/hdd ... and use a new GT

now that u have set a 'control' xbox ..
clean out all drives even get rid of F etc ... clean C/E
nothing on LPC  etc etc
maybe read those posts that DID claim to of done this ?
(old GT on a prev. banned xbox)

THEN use your already banned GT
and see what happerens ! if ya not banned !!
slowly put stuff back on entill you are !
and if you do get banned straight away,  then what 'could' they be checking !
or after putting sumthing back, then thats gives us the answer !

Mick ..

Feh.. That means attempting to hunt down a free trial thing.. BAH!

OK then.. LLF, new EEPROM...

BTW, it seems that disk.bin is indeed stored in the partition table, so changing the partitions would destroy this information.. Anyone else seen this?

As a result, I'll have an F, but it'll be empty until I've gone through everything...
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« Reply #47 on: November 28, 2004, 11:46:00 AM »
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well maybe getting a new xbox is worth it.

note I used a stock hd with new eeprom, so I will say it'snot safe to do so if you just format it. maybe if the hdd never been on live
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« Reply #48 on: November 28, 2004, 05:32:00 PM »
QUOTE ([GS]EqUaTe @ Nov 28 2004, 05:27 PM)
Sure, I'll do that in a few minutes - just need to back up my saves.

What did you use to LLF the disk, and what make is it?
EDIT: With or without F/G when formatting as new? (ie format as stock, or format w/ F/G for mod stuff?)
Does anyone know if DISK.BIN is erased/nullified in some way if you change your partitions? For that matter, anyone know an easy way to change partitions on the xbox w/o doing a complete new install?

If it doesn't work, I'll just clean my old stock disk and use it for live.. get an hdd swap thing or something...

You can use a program called "autoclave" to lowlevel format drives.

As I understand it you burn it to a floppy, connect all the drives you want to lowlevel format to your pc. DISCONNECT THE OTHER DRIVES!, and then boot off the floppy and it low-level formats all drives connected to your PC.


Re: what they are checking with a flagged GT, I think its already been confirmed that a stock drive with the TEAMASSEMBLY master password is fine, and a big HD without the TEAMASSEMBLY master password is not fine, ergo, they're not checking the master password! Also, plenty of people have tried using a big HD formatted as stock, and still get banned, so feel free to try it again... but I'm almost 100% certain you'll just get your eeprom banned as well.

If you want to try and confirm *what* they are checking, try finding an 8 or 10GB IDE drive which did not come from an xbox and using that as stock with a flagged GT. If it works, then you can reasonably say that they're banning based on size.

People speculating that MS needs to use PBL style bios loaders and stuff to detect HD sizes don't understand how this stuff really works. The xbox runs all code in Ring0 (or whatever) and any xbe could interrogate the HD to find out how big it is, what its model number was, or virtually anything. Writing this code would not be hard when you have access to the people who designed the xbox!
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« Reply #49 on: November 29, 2004, 02:00:00 AM »
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Anyone actually got an 8-10gig disk and fancy trying it?


EDIT: FYI, I do know how to LLF drives, and have been doing it for some time.. I was asking, because I wanted to get some idea of what others had used.
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« Reply #50 on: November 29, 2004, 05:36:00 AM »
Query.. Has anyone tried using a STOCK HDD that is 10gigs and formatting it with F: to see if this results in a ban or not?
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« Reply #51 on: November 29, 2004, 08:06:00 AM »
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Hopefully not...

I shall report back as and when i find out anything, obviously..
In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the ride.. wink.gif
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« Reply #52 on: November 30, 2004, 10:39:00 AM »
Argh. Still not able to get on live.

Reason? I can't remember the frelling details to recover the live account!
And to make it worse, the UK db is down today. ARGHSALFFDG
(They were too busy when I called yesterday, or whenever it was)

Going to be away most of tomorrow, so it's unlikely I'll get a chance to get it on until Thursday now. BAH!
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« Reply #53 on: December 01, 2004, 11:37:00 PM »
You need to unlock your drive before performing the LLF.  You can do that through Slayer's 2.6 or ConfigMagic.
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« Reply #54 on: December 02, 2004, 08:00:00 AM »
QUOTE (-Gadget- @ Dec 2 2004, 07:50 AM)
ffs how many more times do i have to post this !!
NO U DO NOT NEED TO LLF THE HDD !!!

just re-do the partitions .. like if u were putting in a new hdd..
is a command called configsectors in evox..
fuck knows what it is in slayers as thats just evox all set up for the n00bs so i int ever tried it
(maybe i should so i can tell how !!)

Mick ..

whats the actual text for the cofigsectors command, i want to add it to my ini

will it work with 3921 dash or do i need to install the 3935 or something
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« Reply #55 on: December 02, 2004, 10:29:00 AM »
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And in other news: finally got the info for live.. ~kicks self~ The one thing I hadn't thought to try changing.. My NAME!! Grrrrrr.

Off to russia on saturday though, so it'll be a while before I can get any info to you.
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« Reply #56 on: December 02, 2004, 01:45:00 PM »
oops my fault, i forgot about that command,thats what i used to set up my larger HD and was fine on live until H2 release night, i thought it was something new for some reason and that i might need a newer evox dash or something cause im running 3921 still


sorry(smacks myself in the forehead)
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« Reply #57 on: December 02, 2004, 02:46:00 PM »
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Mick ...
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« Reply #58 on: December 04, 2004, 09:59:00 AM »
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« Reply #59 on: December 12, 2004, 06:59:00 AM »
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