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wsly

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I Screwed Up Formatted C Drive
« on: December 16, 2004, 02:56:00 PM »
I was testing a new utility I made that auto installs a softmod and it screwed up and formatted hard drive... now I can boot a game but have no dash.... how can I get back in to ftp te backed up c drive files?
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wsly

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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2004, 03:02:00 PM »
what about a game with dashupdate.... will that work? and how do I get it to update?
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JohnnyHunng

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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2004, 03:11:00 PM »
Copy a softmod package like itools to ur hdd, run an exploitable game, exploit in, bam ftp access...U won't even have to softmod again if u know what ur doing and just replace files in C where they go.
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wsly

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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2004, 03:51:00 PM »
how do I gain access to copy the gamesave? I don't have a dash on c:\ so I can't access the gamesave manager????
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wsly

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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2004, 06:46:00 PM »
so I boot a modded xbox up then just unplug the hdd and plug this one in?
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wsly

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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2004, 06:04:00 AM »
ok so I think I understand this now.... I boot a game (007) wait till the hdd isn't being accessed.. unplug it and place it on my pc running HDM and copy the dash files back to the c:\ partition... right??
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« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2004, 06:49:00 AM »
you do have the eeprom.bin of your xbox now do you?  if you've got the wits for trying to create an autoinstaller but didn't get your eeprom.bin before testing it you're not ready for even attempting to create something like that

in which case a hotswap is indeed your only way out

however, if you do have your eeprom.bin, xboxhdm can unlock your drive, rebuild it and relock it in a pretty straightforward way...

just posted this as a possible option to avoid the risky hotswapping
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wsly

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« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2004, 07:31:00 AM »
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I backed the eeprom up before I did anything.....
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wsly

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« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2004, 07:36:00 AM »
I do have aquestion for ya though...

I'm new to this softmod and just wanted something new to do (modchipped dozens of xbox's but no softmods). Anyway, can I do a softmod that doesn't change the msdash from xboxdash.xbe and boots to unleashx or media center? I can get it working booting up unleashx the way I want it but at the expense of renaming the xboxdash.xbe. Or does it have to be done that way?
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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2004, 03:19:00 PM »
QUOTE(wsly @ Dec 17 2004, 04:34 PM)
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