Topic: Soft-mod With Usb Drive (Read 34 times)

cdahmedeh · « **on:** August 16, 2007, 09:28:00 AM »

Hello,

My friend currently owns an Xbox 360 Premium (20GB). He wants to soft-mod (for playing backups, media, emulation, etc.) his Xbox 360 without voiding his warranty. So we devised this possible idea :

1. Get a USB hard drive
2. Install the modded OS on the drive using a computer
3. Plug the USB hard drive into the Xbox 360.
4. Make it boot from the USB hard drive.

My question is that I would like to know if this is possible, especially the part about booting from the USB hard drive.

Thanks

Hamsteren · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2007, 09:40:00 AM »

Not at the moment no.

Reaper527 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2007, 11:37:00 AM »

you can't boot anything on the 360 from a USB drive. if you want to mod your system your only options are either a modchip, or a firmware flash (which involves opening the system and voiding your warranty)

cdahmedeh · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2007, 09:08:00 PM »

Then is it possible to have a regular soft-mod, and use the USB drive as a storage device so you can store backups ?

chorizo1 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2007, 08:49:00 PM »

QUOTE(cdahmedeh @ Aug 17 2007, 10:08 PM)

Then is it possible to have a regular soft-mod, and use the USB drive as a storage device so you can store backups ?

no

Reaper527 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2007, 09:43:00 AM »

there is no "softmod" so to speak, its a firmware flash. and even with that, you need to burn all your games to dual layer dvd+r. games would probably run terrible if you they were stored on a USB device anyways due to the low transfer speeds.

cdahmedeh · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2007, 07:24:00 PM »

OK Then, We will do a firmware flash. I know it would be ridiculous to store backups on a 20GB hard drive. It would have been nice to use a bigger storage device but it doesn't seem possible. It is possible to store the backups and play them on a single-layer DVD if the game is smaller than 4.7GB ? These dual-layer DVDs seem very expensive. We are also interested in emulators if its possible to use them on xbox 360.

jterhune · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2007, 04:08:00 AM »

You cannot run homebrew or emulators on a 360 unless you have a specific software version and know what you are doing. You can only run game backups off of DVDR+DL

Before you even attempt to do a firmware flash, however, you need to do a lot of reading here or there is a good chance you will permanently destroy your 360.

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