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[unstoppable77]

yea I have the jumper in master, should I have the dvd drive IDE unplugged?

[Flagmax]

On xbox?  No.

As you know, the xbox hd locks automatically when it loses power so make sure you leave the xbox power cable plugged in.  Only unplug ide really quick and plug the pc ide cable.

When your pc searches for drives, does it finds the xbox drive?  I noticed if the drive didn't unlock, the PC lags while it seaches drives.  You also get bunch of errors when you run xboxhdm.

[unstoppable77]

Yes my PC finds the xbox hard drive then after a while it says "primary hard disk fail" and I have to reboot
I guess that means im not switching IDE cables at the right time and it doesn't unlock it.... I do it right when "MS" pops up under the big X.

[Flagmax]

That kinda sounds like your PC tries to boot off the xbox hd first.  Check you PC bios and make sure it set to boot from CDROM first.  I have CDROM connected to Secondary primary cable.

After you Unpause let it boot the xboxhdm then hit Enter and watch the screen, it tries to access the HD and if it says bunch of errors, it did not unlock.  No, errors means its unlocked, run xbrowser now.

[unstoppable77]

I have it set so my PC boots from cd-rom which is on my secondary master. I also tried to pause after the PC check for drives and I let the linux thing check and I get alot of errors going down the screen, which means its locked.

[unstoppable77]

lol I finally did it.... But when im in xbrowser I dont know how to copy files from the CD to my xbox HD

[unstoppable77]

Now I finally did it, I hotswapped succesfully and transfered the games saves... the hotswap finally worked because I plugged in the AV cable to the xbox but not the TV.