K, I know I have seen this "your hdd is probably dying". There may be a solution.
What you need for this method:
Evox hdd format disc (slayers or something else might work, don't know)
Hdd with symptoms below
Patience
Symptoms:
- HDD slowly boots (but does boot eventually, slowly fading into the screen). Then runs like a one legged punch drunk turtle. (really slow, you will know).
- You take out the hdd, put in another that works perfectly (like the stock hdd).
- Thus, not an IDE cable problem.
- You check out the hdd in your computer and it works flawlessly after you reformat it to the computer (after you give up because transferring at 1kb per sec to the computer is not worth saving all of the good stuff on the hdd) (WTF is going on with the xbox you wonder).
- So, you have it formatted to the computer, then you put it back in the xbox with an evox reformat disc, but still does the same damn thing as before (slowly fades in, turtle speed, etc.) even though you reformatted the bastard in the computer.
Solution:
- wait for the evoxdash to fully load (no faded X logo).
- Repeatedly select format hdd until it starts to select it by pushing "A" (it will then say to make sure you have a copy of c and e and do you wish to continue, and it slowly fades to this screen also)
- hit left on the control pad when it finally finishes fading into the continue screen
- after it selects "yes", repeatedly hit "A" until the screen starts to fade to the formatting C:.
- Wait for it to format (it will take a llittle bit, I think it took about 5 minutes instead of the usual 15 sec.)
- You should be up and running (without all of the data you had before, but hey, you saved some cash)
Hope this helps, and if mods want this to be sticky, well then my work is done.
I have some thoughts of why this goes on, but I will save that for a bump as this will help many I believe.
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