Print

[Heimdall]

QUOTE(themacmeister @ May 22 2010, 09:30 AM)

Of course, many guides say not to use the eeprom backed up from a soft-mod, as it is probably garbage/hacked/injected.

Rubbish. Which guides say this?

The guide you linked to needs a chipped Xbox as well as your softmod Xbox. If you have one available then that guide should work. If not, start here.

[Heimdall]

All Xboxes have an eeprom on the motherboard, which contains details that make the Xbox unique, including the key used to generate the password you use to lock the disk. You have to run Evox (as an application) or Config Magic to take a backup of your eeprom.

The eeprom is NOT (repeat NOT) questionable, so long as you take the backup properly. Why do you persist in believing that it is?

There are two basic ways to use xboxhdm.

1. Bypass the shadow C on your current disk, take backups of C and E, then use them with the eeprom to build a new disk.

2. Take a clean stock C (from Slayers / AID / CASH), use Kingroach NDURE 3.1 to build a new softmod file set on top of the stock C, then use the new C and E files with the eeprom to build the new disk.

[Bomb Bloke]

http://wiki-scene.co...irming_A_Backup

[ldotsfan]

QUOTE(Heimdall @ May 22 2010, 07:21 PM)

1. Bypass the shadow C on your current disk, take backups of C and E, then use them with the eeprom to build a new disk.

For Kingroach's Ndure 3.1, running E:\ndts\default.xbe will bypass shadow C and the eeprom reader option is available inside Ndure toolset.

[Bomb Bloke]

QUOTE(themacmeister @ May 23 2010, 09:40 AM)

I now have a 294GB F drive, formatted with XBPartitioner 1.1 of course!!!

It'd be a good idea to confirm the cluster size checks out. Load the EvoX dash (as an app or whatever), note the free space it reports on F. Add a single file, 10kb or less, and subtract the new free space figure from the old. The result, divided by 1024, is the cluster size - should be 32kb.

[Bomb Bloke]

XBPartitioner doesn't show you the cluster size the partition is using, it merely shows you the size it'll attempt to use when you hit the format button. Catch is, if you're not telling it to alter the capacity of a partition, it won't bother to format when you give the order - did you do that?

[Heimdall]

No, you still need to check AFTER you've used XBPartitioner 1.1. It doesn't matter how many times you use XBPartitioner "at the start", you need to check to confirm that the cluster size is correct.

In the time you've taken arguing you could have done the check and moved on.......

[themacmeister]

QUOTE(Harryt223 @ May 24 2010, 06:58 PM)

80pin cable made that much of a difference?

I'll have to use my spare 80pin and try it now!

Well, the 320GB drive was almost certainly already 2x or 3x faster than the crappy 10GB XBOX original. The 80 pin cable is a pain to try and fold and squeeze back into the box, but I did get it done eventually.

I assume this enables some extra Ultra-DMA modes that aren't supported with 40-pin.?!