I finally just got my BEVS drive working well in the 360. For everyone saying this is "so easy" or a really quick upgrade, I heartily disagree. If your hardware works against you, this can be a very in-depth, time consuming and frustrating swap. I would consider myself a pretty tech-savvy person and I've done a lot of these types of upgrades over the years, but this was not easy.
I started everything off at around 1pm this afternoon and things went quickly downhill. First I excitedly took apart my hard drive casing and took the new BEVS drive out of the wrapper. I then found the tutorials I wanted to follow and got started. My first real problem came when I tried to create a dos bootable flash drive. I'm still not sure whether the actual flash drive model itself was the problem or if it was my motherboard/BIOS giving me issues. But for some reason I couldn't get any of the methods shown in the tutorials to work so that I could boot the pc from the flash drive. I would either get errors when trying to run the HP flash drive tool on the drive or when actually restarting the pc and attempting to boot. It took me easily 3-4 hours to FINALLY get through this step. I ended up using a method I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else. It can be found here:
http://www.aetherwid...20070530-1.htmlThis in effect fools your pc into thinking that your flash drive is a floppy, and allows you to use your MS-DOS system files already on your computer instead of having to search for other versions. This ended up working great for me and finally got me through the worst part of this project.
I then moved on into more trouble. I have an n-force motherboard so my upgrade required me to do some hex editing. I had never done anything like that before so this step took me another hour or so to look up all of the information needed and make sure I wasn't editing something I wasn't supposed to. Because I was cautious, I got this step right on the first try and kept pushing forward.
At this point, my 360 was recognizing the drive and formatting, and I had dumped all of the information from the old drive. My next real problem was when I went to copy all of the dumped memory to the new drive. Upon plugging the BEVS drive back up to Xplorer360, I only had 1 partition showing. Because I wasn't prepared for this to happen, I ignorantly loaded the Partition 2 image up to the BEVS drive and nerfed everything. Once I had done this, the BEVS drive showed Partitions 2 & 3, but didn't include a 0. 2 & 3 obviously weren't set up correctly either as the 360 no longer recognized the new drive. NOW, I had to go searching for how to undo all of the steps I had done and start over with a new flash of the BEVS drive. This didn't take too long, as I found out about the hddhackr -u function and ran that to fix everything. But the backtracking had already pushed this project over the 6 hour mark easily.
I ended up using the full image backup method found here to solve my problems:
http://www.devilsps3...60/xbox360/130/I honestly don't know why this method isn't recommended by everyone, as I found it much easier and it requires no further hex editing. If you aren't comfortable with hex editing or just want a quicker step, I recommend anyone else doing this mod to go that route. After I found that tutorial, I had the drive up and running in no time at all.
After all was said and done, this project took me an entire day. I started at 1pm and wasn't on live playing some 1vs100 until around 11pm. I took a lot of breaks in between to eat, shower, all that good stuff, but this still took a REALLY long time. I wanted to post this in case anyone else needs some other good resources to check out in case they get stuck as well.
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