I GOT IT!!!! YES!!!! Ok, This was my experience last night. I gotten my mem card in the mail on ebay. And for the record DON'T BUY INTURACT MEM CARDS! It took 2 hours and 2 different machines to try to get the save game on it. Once was on an XP machine and another on a Win2k machine. I used 1.02, 1.05 and the latest AR software. This pos card would read in AR and copy the contents over. But when I popped it out and put it back in, it was gone (oh, I did the usb cord on the tail of the controller mod). I checked on the xbox and there blocks used, but nothing was on there. So I said screw it, Gamestop was closed and the only thing closes I can do was the hot swap method (which wasn't that hard really).
So, I used xboxhdm tool to creat my boot cd with the gamesaved exploit (oh btw, I had a 1.6 xbox and used ltools 1.7.5 for Splinter Cell) on it. Hotswapped it, used xbrowser and copied my exploit into the E\udata folder. Ok, hooked everything back up and fired up the xbox and lord and behold my gamesave exploit was there. So, what I also did was copy from the xbox to the mem card of the gamesaved exploit just in case. Once I ran Splinter Cell, start the game and load up my save game (btw it will say Linux) and bam, the mxm screen popped up and then started to go into the mini-linux. This screen will be fine (so I answer my own question, lol). Next, I ftped into my xbox and copied my c and e drive (never hurts to backup).
After that was done, I went to do a backup under ltools. Once you hit this option, this is where the scramble of the video comes into play. Oh, I believe this option will take a while (maybe 10 mins. not sure as I went to have a cig). DON'T FORGET TO TAKE OFF ANY CONTROLLERS YOU HAVE HOOKED UP. I remember reading this in another thread about someone doing this mod and had some freeze up towards the end of the installation, but I wasn't going to take a chance.
LesMcQueen, I believe you should be fine to power cycle as it's not copying any files, but don't quote me on that one. It just kind of made logical sense to me as it's only making a backup and not messing with the default ms stuff.
After I got the nice flashing green, power it off, power it on. Did my saved exploit again and ftp into the xbox and copied the backup files that it made. If you notice, I ephansize backup alot. After months of reading the forums I notice that everyone just say to run the ude. Well, I rather be safe than sorry and have tons of backup than a big dead piece of paper weight.
So, this time, I ran the ude installation. I choose all options that pertain to my version of xbox, kernel, and dash version. After all the options were done, the screen started to go scrambled again. I unplugged all controllers and just waited for the orange led to go away. Once it was flashing green, I powered it down and power it backup. After the nice ms logo popped up, evox came up.
So, hopefully, this will help with the confusion of the how and when the scrambled video comes up. People say it looks like a blocked pay television type of screen. It was more of a commador 64 with a v-sych all out of wack to me.
Everything seem to work as it should and plus, I made another backup of the modified version also, just to compare since I don't know how the directory structure is like on a softmodded xbox. Even got to play halo2 with a trainer, tee hee.
