Topic: Tutorial : Recipe To Create Lxhdm (Read 108 times)

ldotsfan · « **on:** June 28, 2008, 08:54:00 AM »

What you need:

Software:
1. Frosty's xbox rescue disc (from usual place)
2. Kingroach Ndure 3.1 (usual place)
3. msdash 5960 (From Slayer's or CASH 1.1 or your own backup from C drive)
4. Any xiso tool. I use qwix.
5. ConfigMagic latest version (usual place)

Hardware:
A power source for IDE hdd. I used the power connector from my USB IDE enclosure/adapter.

Preparation Steps:
1. Extract Frosty's iso to a folder. I name it lxhdm.
2. Delete root.xbe from lxhdm folder.
3. From Kingroach Ndure's E folder's ndts folder, copy unleashx.xbe to lxhdm folder and rename it as root.xbe
4. Copy config.xml to lxhdm folder.

CODE

            192.168.0.100
            255.255.255.0
            192.168.0.1
            192.168.0.1
            192.168.0.7



            xbox
            xbox
            21
            2
            No
            Welcome to XBOX FTP Server




            E:\apps\xbmc\default.xbe
            E:\apps\xbmc\default.xbe


                        1

                lxhdm

            0
            No

            False
            False



        Relaunch d:default.xbe
        Prepare New HD


                Format X Drive
                Format Y Drive
                Format Z Drive

                    Are you sure you want to format Drive C?
                    Press OK to proceed with the format operation.
                    Format C Drive


                    Are you sure you want to format Drive E?
                    Press OK to proceed with the format operation.
                    Format E Drive


            Copy C Backup
            Copy E Backup

        File Explorer
        Lock hard drive
        Reboot
        Shutdown

5. Create a CDrive folder in lxhdm folder.
6. Create a EDrive folder in lxhdm folder.
7. In CDrive, place the files in this order.
a. msdash 5960 files
b. kingroach ndure's C folder files.
8. Delete away ernie.xtf and xbox.etf in xodash folder of CDrive folder.
9. Create a ndure folder in lxldm and copy ernie.xtf, xbox.xtf there.
10. Copy kingroach ndure's E folder files to EDrive.
11. Delete away DVD2xbox folder in Applications.
12. Create a ConfigMagic folder in Applications and copy the relevant files there.
13. Create the xiso with qwix.
14. Burn to a DVD-R at 4x. (or whatever media works for your xbox's dvd drive).

The next post will outline the execution steps.

ldotsfan · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2008, 09:05:00 AM »

The execution steps to do the actual hdd upgrade:

1. Eject dvd tray and insert lxhdm dvd. Power off.
2. Connect hdd IDE to new hdd. Supply power to new hdd.
3. Power on xbox. You will get an error 5 which is expected.
4. Unplug hdd IDE cable but keep external power to new hdd on
5. power off xbox and connect hdd IDE cable back to old hdd.
6. power on, after a while lxhdm dvd will load.
7. when unleashX is loaded, unplug hdd IDE cable from old hdd and plug it to new hdd.
8. Select relaunch option in unleashX menu.
9. After unleashX is relaunched, select Prepare HD menu option. Copying of files will take a while. especially for bigger files like shadowC.img.
10. Use file manager for steps 11-13 onwards.
11. Go to C drive and delete evoxdash.xbe
12. Go to C drive's xodash folder. Copy D drive's ndure folder's ernie.xtf over.
13. Copy D drive's ndure folder's xbox.xtf to C drive's xodash folder.
14. Finally select Lock Hard Drive menu option in unleashX to launch configmagic.
15. Use Start button to lock hard drive.
16. Reboot to enjoy your new hdd.

Some of these steps can probably be scripted after somebody verifies they work for them too.

ldotsfan · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2008, 09:29:00 AM »

Credits:
1. Kingroach. His post on hotswapping softmod xbox to softmod another xbox triggered this: http://forums.xbox-s...&...t&p=4295170

2. Movax and Bomb Bloke contributed various ideas on technical implementations.

3. run088 and metalmaster06 and theevilhacker63 for supporting the idea during incubation stage.

Hope I didn't leave anybody out.

Development thread: http://forums.xbox-s...o...653467&st=0

k4mui · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2008, 02:03:00 PM »

QUOTE(thefuNkpuNk @ Jul 12 2008, 06:58 AM)

about how long is " a while "? this has been making a click, click... click, click... noise for about 15 minutes now. Could i have a bad burn?

Same problem here...

ldotsfan · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:10:00 AM »

QUOTE(k4mui @ Jul 15 2008, 04:39 AM)

Same problem here...

http://forums.xbox-s...&...t&p=4305806

Make sure you are comfortable with making a bootable xiso dvd before you attempt any of this.

ldotsfan · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2008, 07:25:00 AM »

Try the original Frosty's disc and see if that boots. So you're saying your dvd media you used has worked in the past and the way you created and burned the xiso disc has worked as well, right?

ldotsfan · « **Reply #6 on:** July 25, 2008, 07:37:00 AM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 25 2008, 06:30 AM)

Ya I tried burning frosty's rescue disc and does the same thing , ya I have made xiso's in the past with qwix one I can recall was deleting some files from a ghost recon 2 disc and recreating the iso.

Am I doing something wrong , all I do is select create ISO , select local folder and select the lxhdm folder and create iso , then burn using imgburn...again any help very appreciated...

It could the media you used. Try dvd-r (that's minus sign) or cdrw.

Cowsmotrucka · « **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2008, 11:00:00 AM »

Ok I got frosty's disc to load using a different brand dvd-r , lxhdm disc still won't work burned on that dvd-r...

I think my problem may lie in...

7. In CDrive, place the files in this order.
a. msdash 5960 files
b. kingroach ndure's C folder files.

I'm not really sure if I copied it from the right place on slayer's disc , I copied it from Slayers\SYSTEM\ALL\c ...Just took all the files in that folder and copied them..Is that where I should have gotten the files from?

ldotsfan · « **Reply #8 on:** July 25, 2008, 04:45:00 PM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 26 2008, 01:36 AM)

Ok I got frosty's disc to load using a different brand dvd-r , lxhdm disc still won't work burned on that dvd-r...

I think my problem may lie in...

7. In CDrive, place the files in this order.
a. msdash 5960 files
b. kingroach ndure's C folder files.

I'm not really sure if I copied it from the right place on slayer's disc , I copied it from Slayers\SYSTEM\ALL\c ...Just took all the files in that folder and copied them..Is that where I should have gotten the files from?

1. Size of lxhdm folder?
2. You can skip 7a if you want to just boot to unleashX and don't need dual-boot stuff.
3. The folder you mentioned on Slayer's should be correct though.

ldotsfan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2008, 08:35:00 PM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 26 2008, 09:04 AM)

Size of folder is 1.52gb , with a dummy.bin taking up .94gb...

Also for

4. Copy config.xml to lxhdm folder.

I just copied the code you posted and made it config.xml since the config.xml inside Ndure 3.1 e/ndts is completely different..?

Can you list the contents of lxhdm folder?

ldotsfan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 26, 2008, 05:53:00 PM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 27 2008, 03:32 AM)

CODE

Applications
       ConfigMagic
       XBpartinioner
CDrive
       Audio
       Bios
       Fonts
       Media
       ShadowC
       Xboxdashdata.185ead00
       Xodash
    xb0xdash.xbe
    xbox book.xtf
    xbox.xtf
    xboxdash.xbe
EDrive
       App
       Dash
       Ndts
       NKP11
Ndure
    ernie.xtf
    xbox.xtf
Skin
       White_Blue_X
    Boot.cfg
    Config.xml
    Defualt.xbe
    Dummy.bin
    Evox.ini
    Root.xbe
    Xboxrom.bin

Looks alright, did you do step 2? What's the file sizes of default.xbe and root.xbe? They should be different. I realized the wording of step 2 might be misleading. I actually intended that ndts' default.xbe become lxhdm's root.xbe , if you follow what I mean.

ldotsfan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 29, 2008, 07:54:00 AM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 29 2008, 05:21 AM)

For some reason the default.xbe from frosty's rescue disc and the default.xbe from ndure\E\ndts later renamed to root.xbe are both 22kb?

What I did was first copy it from ndure\E\ndts and paste it into a different folder other than lxhdm and rename to root.xbe and then finally past it in lxhdm or it would have overwritten the default.xbe that was already in lxhdm (from extracting frosty's rescue disc)...So somehow I ended up with them both being the same size..just tried it a 2nd time with same results...

They should be different sizes. Restore the copy from Frosty's xiso. root.xbe should be unleashX. default.xbe of lxhdm should be the same one from Frosty's. This is the PBL xbe.

Cowsmotrucka · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2008, 01:58:00 PM »

Ya that was the problem , should have noticed it. Need to either take DEFAULT.xbe from Ndure/E/Dash folder or Unleashx.xbe from NDURE/E/NDTS folder and rename it to root.xbe then copy and paste into the LXHDM folder. For some reason its freezing on me while copying files though , perhaps it was a bad burn or the hard drive I was using was shot. Either way got it working , thnx again for the patients lol

ldotsfan · « **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2008, 08:27:00 AM »

QUOTE(Cowsmotrucka @ Jul 30 2008, 04:34 AM)

Ya that was the problem , should have noticed it. Need to either take DEFAULT.xbe from Ndure/E/Dash folder or Unleashx.xbe from NDURE/E/NDTS folder and rename it to root.xbe then copy and paste into the LXHDM folder. For some reason its freezing on me while copying files though , perhaps it was a bad burn or the hard drive I was using was shot. Either way got it working , thnx again for the patients lol

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to solve the copying files problems.

The new config.xml will be

CODE

            192.168.0.100
            255.255.255.0
            192.168.0.1
            192.168.0.1
            192.168.0.7



            xbox
            xbox
            21
            2
            No
            Welcome to XBOX FTP Server




            E:\apps\xbmc\default.xbe
            E:\apps\xbmc\default.xbe


                        1

                lxhdm

            0
            No

            False
            False



        Relaunch d:default.xbe
        Prepare New HD


                Format X Drive
                Format Y Drive
                Format Z Drive

                    Are you sure you want to format Drive C?
                    Press OK to proceed with the format operation.
                    Format C Drive


                    Are you sure you want to format Drive E?
                    Press OK to proceed with the format operation.
                    Format E Drive


            Unzip C drive
            Unzip E drive

        File Explorer
        Lock hard drive
        Reboot
        Shutdown

Steps 7:
7. In CDrive, place the files in this order.
a. msdash 5960 files
b. kingroach ndure's C folder files.

Add an additional step to zip the files to C.zip

10. Copy kingroach ndure's E folder files to EDrive.
Add step to zip files to E.zip

For execution steps:
9. After unleashX is relaunched, select Prepare HD menu option

after 9, select "Unzip C drive" menu option followed by "Unzip E drive".

Lord_Hondros · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2008, 08:36:00 PM »

Would I be able to just create an original un-modded HDD using this method? I'd rather have an un-modified large HDD, then soft-mod it and put everything on it. Is this possible?

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