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[Scrufdog]

So I've had this unlocked Western Digital WD2000, 200g hard drive in my xbox for a couple years. The other day I started getting a code 07 boot error. After some troubleshooting I formatted then Zero'd the entire drive on my PC, which sees the drive fine. Still no good. Here's the list of what I've done, nothing works so far....

-Installed a stock unlocked hard drive, boots fine.

-Swapped IDE cables

-Formatted to FAT32, then tried NTFS, then Zero'd drive

-ran WD diagnostics on the drive, passed all tests

-No matter what is in the DVD, I get a code 07 when trying the big drive

-Tried hotswapping from stock drive to big drive while booted into Slayers 2.7, never got passed 'Writing Config'

-Reflashed M8+ to the Chameleon 1.5 chip

-Drive works great in my external USB chassis on my PC

-Tried setting drive to Master, then slave, then back to Cable Select like its always been

-Checked and rewrote everything on the EEPROM

-Set the time/date on the xbox, then tried everything again

....

At this point I havent tried XboxHDM or using the big drive on another xbox. Makes me wonder if its even worth trying XboxHDM if the drive isnt recognized even in a hotswap.

I'm gonna grab my other xbox from the girly's house this weekend and see what happens.

Besides that, any other ideas?

This post has been edited by Scrufdog: Jan 24 2009, 05:19 PM

[Scrufdog]

weird. The big drive is working in my xbox at the girly's house. Slayer is formatting it right now. Once its formatted, if the other xbox still doesnt see the 200g, I'll try the girly's 250g drive in it, and see what happens.

Is is somehow possible for the IDE to go bad in a way that it would only see smaller drives?

[steveo1978]

is it possible to try a different psu in your xbox cause maybe yours is dieing and not putting out enough juice to power the larger hdd

[Scrufdog]

ya know, I was thinking about that too.

However, to continue the oddball story.

I put the 200g back in HomeBox, and it still didnt work, even after formatting it in SethBox.

So I took SethBox's 250g Maxtor and put it in HomeBox... works great. WTF?!?!!?

So, I'm just gonna swap HDD's between the 2 and see how long it takes for something to go wrong again.

So I have no clue why an 8g Seagate and a 250g Maxtor work in there, but the 'original' 200g Western Digital doesnt anymore, yet it works fine in a different xbox.

I will check the voltages though, since HomeBox has a WRT54G hardwired and attached to it. Though it still doesnt make sense since I put another big boy drive in it.

Thoughts?