Topic: I Did A Search... Need Help With A New Hd (Read 91 times)

hooshies · « **on:** October 07, 2005, 08:01:00 PM »

QUOTE(DDD123 @ Oct 7 2005, 05:31 PM)

I searched for "new hard drive" and found a bunch of stuff about errors, and HDs for soft modded xboxs, but not exactly what i was looking for....

Not sure how much searching you did...but I'm pretty sure that you didn't look at this post (originally posted by me

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http://forums.xbox-s...opic=448200&hl=

ferrari_rulz_02 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2005, 08:56:00 PM »

with the chip, just stick the new hdd in, and do a cold boot with the slayers disc in the dvd.

then just follow the on screen propts.

but just a tip, if you get a copy of unleashx and stick that on a disc (as bootable), then cold boot with it in the dvd drive, things will be easier. unleashx makes the process a lot easier. slayers is a bit all over the place in my books.

hooshies · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2005, 02:18:00 PM »

Well, it gets a bit complicated but here's what I did (keep in mind that you may not have the resources to do this):

1) Transferred all files from 160 GB XBOX drive to my computer (i have a secondary 300 GB HD that would fit all of the stuff).
2) Unlocked the drive in the XBOX using Slayers
3) Put in new 400 GB HD, and formatted using Slayers, installed dash, etc.
4) Transferred the games/movies/music/gamesaves from computer back onto 400 GB HD

I now have a 400 GB HD in my XBOX, and a 160 GB unlocked drive that I can use on a PC (of course, it would have to be reformatted to use on the PC).

This worked for me because I had enough space on my computer to backup my entire old XBOX drive.

If you don't have these resources, I'm not sure what you could do.

If you need more help, or if you get stuck, just PM me and i'll try to help

ferrari_rulz_02 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2005, 12:56:00 AM »

QUOTE(DDD123 @ Oct 11 2005, 03:11 PM)

i tried to put the new HD in my XBOX, put in the slayers disc, and it wouldnt boot up

mr_abz · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2005, 02:24:00 AM »

Well some chips support formatting the HDD dispite wether it is formatted for use or not. When you put a new hdd in the drive, depending on the chip, it should boot to the OS. From there you can format it.

Edit: If you haven't locked the drive, take it out format it in the pc then replace it in the xbox and boot it with NO disk in the drive. See what happens.

If you have an X3 or Xenium you will be able to format the xbox for use!

Oh, make sure you can get ftp access as well. (By making sure Setup Network is 'YES' and Static IP is 'NO' but im sure you knew that anyway

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PimpleX · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2005, 02:42:00 PM »

You are nearly there but the hard disk needs at least evox on it to be able to FTP to it (in the normal sense I mean, not telnet etc)

You say you have a chip in your XBOX, what chip is it and what bios? Or do you actually have a softmod done on the hard disk? If you have a softmod then you cannot use a slayers disk to put in a new hard disk, if you have a chip with sensible bios on it then you can easily...

If you have a chip then FTP the contents of your old hard disk (C and E drive if you like it the way it is and F if you have anything on it) or just the UDATA TDATA folders if you only want your old game saves....

Then you just boot off the slayers disk (if you've burnt it right!) with the new hard disk with jumpers on it set to Cable Select position.

If you want it like your old hard disk and you backed it all up: ....I'd choose restore retail hard disk option, it will format the C and E and set it up as a standard hard disk, then manually format the F drive using the Slayers disk still, and then finally just install evox on C (or wherever you had before) remove disk reboot...

Evox will come up missing lots of stuff, go the system management and setup your IP address / gateway for your FTP to work again, reboot, the FTP into the XBOX and copy your C and E drive backups over. You now have a 40GB (or whatever size you said it was) hard disk that is the same as your old one but with a bigger F drive. Make a folder in F called Games to hold your games (make sure your evox.ini looks in that folder to auto add games to the games list).

If you don't care too much about your old hard disk then just choose a new full build (retail hard disk) and then manually format the F drive after. Or do it any old way you fancy really

Cheers,

PimpleX

DDD123 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2005, 08:37:00 PM »

QUOTE(PimpleX @ Oct 11 2005, 10:53 PM)

You are nearly there but the hard disk needs at least evox on it to be able to FTP to it (in the normal sense I mean, not telnet etc)

ferrari_rulz_02 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2005, 04:22:00 AM »

well in that case, just cold boot with a copy of slayers in teh dvd drive, and the 40gb hard drive all inserted and plugged in

slayers will let you format the hard drive for xbox use.

mr_abz · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2005, 05:29:00 AM »

QUOTE(DDD123 @ Oct 12 2005, 04:48 AM)

What is this about stting the cable select thing on the jumpers? im a little confused there

DDD123 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2005, 11:13:00 AM »

QUOTE(flashfreak @ Oct 12 2005, 03:25 PM)

I hate slayers. Never used it, never will. Its a mess.

ferrari_rulz_02 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 14, 2005, 12:14:00 AM »

QUOTE(DDD123 @ Oct 13 2005, 04:24 AM)

whats the file size adnc urrent version of unleash X? also with unleash do i just put in the new HD, boot up unleash, and then hit format?

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