Topic: Hotswap Problem (Read 23 times)

AndyMac63220 · « **on:** July 18, 2005, 01:01:00 AM »

i am trying to hotswap to copy my hacked gamesave to my xbox hdd. ive got the xboxhdm bootdisk and everything else i need. i am using the information from here to guide me. i start by booting up my comp and pausing it then i turn on my xbox and when i hear the click i switch the cables but then when i get into xboxhdm it does not detect my drive. i know the actual hotswap went ok because when i cut the power to my xbox i here the click in the drive of it locking again. the only thing i could think of is that its not set as the primary master drive but i dont really know how to set or change that. by the way the ide cable in my comp that im using i pulled out of my second cd drive if that means anything. if someone could help me figure this out itd be much appreciated.

AndyMac63220 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2005, 04:23:00 PM »

anybody?

DaddyJ · « **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2005, 06:46:00 PM »

read my hotswapping faqs as well.

AndyMac63220 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2005, 11:16:00 PM »

thanks for the links. those didnt come up in my searching and they were much more in depth then the ones i did read but how do you know what the pc's primary ide cable is. the only ones that i have in my comp are for my 2 dvd drives and one for the floppy which is the smaller kind. for the 2 dvds there is one cable with 2 connectors and ive tried them both while using the boot cd for xboxhdm in the other. could this be the problem?

DaddyJ · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2005, 05:39:00 AM »

A pc's primary channel is the one your pc's hard drive is normally hooked to, cdroms are normally hooked to the secondary channel.

on an ide ribbon there are normally 3 connections, the one to the main board, and 2 for devices, the middle one being slave, last one being master.

AndyMac63220 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2005, 12:10:00 PM »

is it possible that my pc's hard drive doesnt use an ide cable?

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