Topic: New 250 Gig Drive Problems :i'm A Noob (Read 294 times)

xguy · « **on:** October 10, 2004, 10:35:00 AM »

I've read post along these lines but i need more specific help because i'm so new.

I have a v1.0 box, on which i've done the tsop falsh mod from evilzmods (Flashing TSOP With ANY Version XBOX (V1.0-V1.5) For Noobs), using the 007 raincoat .7 update expliot. Worked like a charm, I used its associated bios (X-ecuter 2 4981 BIOS. (4981.06_256k.bin) looks pre-configed), made it a 1024 as told and flashed succesfully...lucky i guess. I ftp'd over all the appropriate apps. evox, XBMC ect. and it works great.

It only had 8 gig hard drive, so i just bought a 250 gig WD (WD2500?) and used the ftp format method (Format a new HD through FTP (EvoX) (v0.2)) as found here in the tutorials. I originally had a huge F:\drive only. then I reflashed say bios thru 007 hack again making the boot seek sequence for the bios go to F: instead of C: I put my evox 3935 w/ dhcp boot disk back in and ftp everything i had on the original 8 gig to the new F:. I have updated the evox.ini and xbmc----.xml to indicated F: as the new home. Here is what it does with the 250....It boots thru the big X box animation screen then the led turns red and it just runs and the hard drive clicks(almost like its formating, but its not) until i shut it down. If i look at it again thru ftp using the boot disk the file structure is fine...one wired thing...is that it looks like a have a C: drive now ~50 gig, F: ~250 gig

I got the 007 and raincoat from the usuall place and updated it to .7 raincoat. and it did work fine with its original hdd. What am i screwing up??? I'm obviously missing some thing right in fromt of me.

I'm not sure if this matters... but when i did xbtool the bios to resize... The LBA 48 area was not selecable for some reason but it was checked and using the partion6. I changed the colors of the startup, changed led to red, made it 1024 and copied the new hash to the evox.ini file current 0x----------------------------( does this hash realy matter?) Is there any thing else i have to tell evox.ini about the bios?

Please help or give me a swift kick for missing what i've done... I'm so close...

xguy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2004, 03:52:00 PM »

xguy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2004, 08:25:00 AM »

gfk · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2004, 10:00:00 AM »

try flashing it again with the lba selected and chose a partition table on xbtool.
the hashline is so that evox can know what bios your using to me it isnt that important.

This post has been edited by gfk on Oct 11 2004, 05:02 PM

xguy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2004, 10:12:00 AM »

Thanks...

The LBA sect. is grayed out? But i can see that it was checked and so was ignore partition table. Partition6 takes rest. This is the bios that came with raincoat. I was wondering if xbox partitioner might help and how to use it if it would?

gfk · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2004, 10:12:00 PM »

i aint no expert hopefully someone can help you. it seems to be like that with mine however i used the "partition6 takes 137gb and partition7 takes rest" and its fine with mine. another question what bios are you using?

xguy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 14, 2004, 01:14:00 PM »

well, i'm x2 4981.06 .

I got it to work though! I was using the FTP Method, which didn't work. I finally was able to burn a dvd and I used the format script addition to the evox.ini and it worked like a charm in under a min. !

I guess the key was have the Backup info created from the orignial drive on the dvd and then this is used to format the new drive.

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