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[snoopy22]

what are the .67 softmod available ?

[FrostyTheSnowman]

NDURE and Kingroach both have .67 available, but I recommend that you use NDURE.

You could also custom-make your own softmod (like I do), but that gets a little more complicated...

This post has been edited by FrostyTheSnowman: Mar 12 2007, 12:35 AM

[snoopy22]

I read about the ndure softmod seems complicated, atleast more then the ltools i always use..

Or have i just misread and its basically the same procedure ??

[poopiemagee]

Thanks Frosty...I'm going to stick with my mere 650 for now but I'll save your instructions if and when I'm ready.

By the way, if you haven't played Aliens vs Predator (the strategy game) for xbox...it's awesome if you like Command and Conquer (real time strategy games)

[cavinkeven]

somebody needs to get this topic going again. I'm about to order a seagate st-3750640as 750gb drive pretty cheap. any downfalls to using a sata to ide converter? the good deal is on the sata instead of pata and I can't pass it up. I've read that it will work fine. Can anybody recommend the best converter for this? Anybody figured out how to get the full 750 gb out of the drives yet? any opinions on the probability of getting the full 750gb out of it in the future?  One more thing, i have a softmodded 1.4, when i go into my settings on evox, or xbmc and check my bios it says unknown, why is this and how do i find out which bios I have? Thanks for any help!!!!!

[bearcreek]

I have gotten all of my data backed up and I am now in the process of  putting it back on the drive. I reformated the F and G drives. This time I disabled F and G, then rebooted, then formated the drives in 32k clusters. It seems to have worked, I am past the point of corruption on G drive, but I have 79g left to test. That will be done this evening and I will post the results. I have also not tested the data that I put on it, so I am not possitive if it worked. Use Frosty's tutorial on page 1 of this topic for the best results.

I am not sure but I think I saw where the sata to IDE will work, you should do a search to be sure.

As far as the bios, I use a modchip and I do not know how you softmodded your xbox. I would say you will have to get a bios that will recognize the large drive and large partitions.

[cavinkeven]

I need some help here. I got my 750 hd installed and was gonna put Krayzies Ndure on it. I updated 1.1 installer to 1.1.1.  my first splinter cell copied over to the ar card fine but the second one kept saying not a valid xbox gamesave. tried it several times. finally I had to use sid 4.0. when installing I chose the ndure option. It never gave any options for .67 or .06 patch that I have saw people mention. I read and followed the tutorial for sid. everything worked fine. backup games played. Ok next i put the xbpartitioner file in my apps and ran it, followed frostys post on how to split the f and g drives with g on in evox settings. after formatting the f and g in 32 kb clusters and exiting xbpartitioner it wont play any backup games. when i put the splintercell disc in to try to delete the softmod and start over it wont let me do ANYTHING, it just reboots the splintercell game. I can't do anything!!! How can I fix this? Please help me. I thought I was so close to having this thing going finally. Thanks

[cavinkeven]

Ok it will play some backup games I just discovered. alot of them freeze when loading a saved game. a few wont boot up at all and some will play fine. before, on my old softmod everything played fine. Thanks

[FrostyTheSnowman]

QUOTE(cavinkeven @ Mar 30 2007, 03:46 PM)

Ok it will play some backup games I just discovered. alot of them freeze when loading a saved game. a few wont boot up at all and some will play fine. before, on my old softmod everything played fine. Thanks

Have you tried clearing your /E/CACHE folder, and X, Y, and Z drives?

[cavinkeven]

hey frosty, thanks for the advice. I have to ftp in to clear those drive right? one more thing I forgot to mention. after messing with xbpartitioner the first time. I never actually got it to format and write. it never showed any actual activity at the bottom of the screen. I went back in and did the format and write option and it showed it doing such in 32k. I made f and g at 371gb each. after that was done i went into evox and it shows free space on c:130.039.808, e:4.412.424.192, f:370.628.132.864 , g:371.030.786.048, x:786.300.928 y:774.307.840, z:707.739.648 Does that look about right?  Ok in xbmc, when i go to "my files" it says C:124.0MB, E:4.2MB, f:352.5GB, G: says nothing beside it, and I for some reason have a Q drive that I don't remember ever seeing before. It has 4.2GB. I assume evox is showing the amount that the partition will hold, while xbmc is showing how much info is actually on the partition, not what size the partition is correct? I haven't tried to ftp any of my backup game copies onto the drive yet as I want to make sure everything is correct first. I still have to read up on dvd2xbox program after I get this hard drive setup and figure out what is wrong with my softmod now and why splintercell keeps rebooting now when I put the game in to change some of my evox stuff. Frosty, do you have any idea why it didnt give me the option to pick .67 or .06? Am I assuming right that when I chose to install the ndure thing in SID that it actually installed the same thing that the actual Krayzies Ndure would have installed?  Thanks a bunch, I'm gonna try the cache thing as soon as I hear back from you on the ftp question, I'm pretty sure thats how I do it, I think just clean out any file located inside the cache folder? Thanks

[FrostyTheSnowman]

Okay, let's see if I can answer those questions...

1. Yes, just FTP into your XBOX and clear all the files in your /E/CACHE folder, and also clear all the files in your X, Y, and Z drives. (This is necessary to do when you change the hard drive in your XBOX, otherwise games will have loading problems, or freeze.)

2. Yes, your drives look perfect in Evox.    I'm willing to bet that the only reason that your 'G' drive doesn't show up in XBMC is probably just because the 'G' drive is not enabled in XBMC.

3. The 'Q' drive in XBMC is a 'virtual drive' in XBMC, that is basically just pointing to the XBMC directory on your hard drive. Go ahead and take a look in your 'Q' drive, you will see that it just contains your XBMC files.

4. You would not have been able to get as far as you already have without the .67 version, so i'm willing to bet that you already have the .67 version installed.

I hope this helps clear up things for ya.  

[cavinkeven]

thanks frosty that worked!!! I tried to extract iso for dvd2xbox from slayers 2.6 to my apps folder in e: it gave me an error. so that didnt work, i hooked my xbox back up to my tv and my xbmc was gone from my apps and  it  shows remotex instead. also, since my hd swap my itools and mini-linux,which I thought i deleted are not accesible. when i click on remotex it takes me to a slayers screen. this shouldnt be on my xbox since i'm softmodded should it? maybe i tried to put dvd2xbox on my xbox in the wrong way? If i can just figure out how to get dvd2xbox on my xbox i think I'll be finished finally and be ready to put my games on my hd. Thanks for all the help. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

[rod8199]

I just bought my fourth and final xbox off of ebay this last week with plans of putting a segate 750 gb hd in it when i stumbled on this thread looking for something totally different.  I guess I assumed that all the qwerks were worked out with installing larger hd's on xbox's.  Should I consider buying a smaller hd and if so, what size.  I already have 2 xbox's with 250 hd's and 1 with a 120 hd.  I tried at one point to buy that x2 spacer with multiple hd's installed with a switch, but couldn't ever get it working.  Anyways, I would appreciate the advice on what works for a 750 hd and what is working for maximum usage of space.  Thanks.
BTW:  The chip will be an x3 if that helps.

[cavinkeven]

Ok, I have finally got everything pretty much fixed now!! I deleted the slayer files I had copied to e:apps and found that I already had dvd2xbox downloaded from xbins, ftp'd that over to my e:apps and hooked it back to my tv to check it and the remotex or whatever was gone and it was replaced with dvd2xbox so i started that and copied my first game to my f:games and then checked to make sure it would play and it did so I'm good to go on that. then I tried to copy my second game, urban chaos:riot control and it showed files copying but the transfer speed stayed at 0 and the space left never moved and also noticed the light on the xbox was orange during that game transfer when it was red on the first. It finally said it was successfully finished so i checked and it wasnt there!! tried another game and it worked the same as the first and 4 more after that. I'm gonna try urban chaos again after the current game finishes up. I remember reading somewhere that some games must be patched i believe. could this be the issue with that one game? also one other question. Seems like I can remember on my friends chipped xbox (250gb) that when you wanted to swap games you could just exit the current game and choose another game. on my softmodded xbox I have to get up and turn it off. Is there anyway to fix this so I can just exit and start a diff game? maybe in game reset? Oh yeah, and another thing, i see when about to rip a game to hd it has two options on copy mode:normal and iso ripper. What is iso ripper for? movies?  Thanks for the help from everyone. I'm pretty much home, just got to do a little bit of tweaking now it seems and get xbmc back on my hd. It still shows a few xbmc files when ftp'd but It's not in my apps list on my evox when hooked to the tv like it used to be. Itools and mini-linux are still there but not clickable, the cursor just skips over them.  Thanks again guys!!!!! If anybody has any tips they will be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!