Topic: Problems Upgrading Hdd Drive (Read 53 times)

senator · « **on:** December 30, 2004, 02:25:00 AM »

7- hdd timeout
Have you tried booting with disc in tray.. switch box off and boot from fresh with disc inserted ?
Tried as slave? a couple version 1.0 i did the hdd only worked on slave not cable select...from memory that was years ago..

jonrees69 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2004, 03:08:00 AM »

This is a silly question, but have you set the jumper on the new hdd to master?
I think this is right, the DVD is normally a slave.

The only other thing I thought I read a thread about was some incompatibility of the M8 with larger hard drives? But I could be talking outta my a$$ !! hehe

Good luck.

J

PS - If you wanted to upgrade to an Xecuter 3, this feature is inbuilt and (literllally) takes like 5 minutes to do - including fitting and formatting-top util)

senator · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2004, 03:19:00 AM »

You probably did this but ??
IDE cables all in OK...
Power plugged in ? No shit molex splitters with loose connectors...
Actually has power to hdd ?
All other plugs for everything else plugged in ??
(I think if a fan or something isn't working it fails to boot -

??)
You don't have any other auxillary stuff split from the power molex connector into the power of hdd.....

Just cover more basics at the moment.....

J3alz · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2004, 12:22:00 PM »

ok tried the drive hooked straight to the power and still no boot... I also noticed that the dvd won't boot a game either. Any ideas are much appreciated

Thanks

Strud1512 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2004, 12:50:00 PM »

QUOTE(J3alz @ Dec 30 2004, 08:53 PM)

ok tried the drive hooked straight to the power and still no boot... I also noticed that the dvd won't boot a game either. Any ideas are much appreciated

Thanks

J3alz · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2004, 01:45:00 PM »

Is there any possibility I have a bad (new) hdd? I bought it from best buy but I don't have a computer I can try it in. What would a bad hdd do anyway? by the way any other ideas?

J3alz · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2004, 03:25:00 PM »

bump... has anyone ever seen a problem like this?

senator · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:25:00 PM »

LOOK.... I'd say if the hdd is new ?? it should be ok....not having a pc to try it in makes it harder...But since you say you have not even got a dvd working...are you sure the IDE cable is not inserted in reverse? ie....the master is the slave and the slave is the master??? I know its a long shot and you really can only do that if the hdd is out of tray as length isn't there to do it fitted...

captcavecricket · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:34:00 PM »

yep, i'm having the same problem, except its a used hd, i've already deleted everything, but i can't get slayers to boot with this hd in, and i can't get xboxhdm to detect it

i've given up on it

senator · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:45:00 PM »

Well there is the possibility the HDD's are dead...

J3alz · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:46:00 PM »

ok positive the ide cable is fine... I can swap the old drive in and it will boot up no problem.. also the dvd only will boot when the old hdd is in!

J3alz · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:57:00 PM »

senator · « **Reply #12 on:** December 30, 2004, 07:13:00 PM »

J3alz · « **Reply #13 on:** December 31, 2004, 11:31:00 AM »

The diagram on the hard drive was upside down. So when I switched jumpers it was on master! So now its all working good! Thanks everyone for the help!

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