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shambles1980

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« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2011, 08:05:00 PM »

1. take the usb drive and connect it to your xbox.
2. Load up xbox without a game so it goes to microsoft dash.
3. Enter microsoft dash's memory manager.
4. Use memory manager to format the usb drive.
5. take usb drive to pc.
6. open xplorer360
7. click on drive (top left corner )
8. click OPEN>harddrive or memory card
9. Transfer saves to the usb pen.
10.Take usb device back to xbox.
11. use microsoft dashboards memory manager to transfer them to your xbox  "highlight the name press right select copy"
12, Restart xbox with game in drive.
13. select play game.
14. select load.
15 select the option on top left of screen (i forget name)
16. follow on screen instructions,
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shambles1980

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« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2011, 08:28:00 PM »

i always do basic install..
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shambles1980

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« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2011, 07:13:00 AM »

QUOTE(Rxanadu @ Jul 24 2011, 04:05 AM) View Post

I'm having problems connecting via FlashFTP.  The IP address constantly shows as "0.0.0.0", and even after using both this and the basic IP address (192.168.0.2), I still couldn't get it to work.

Also, out of curiosity, I burned one of the games I own onto a disc via torrent and tested it out with UnleashX.  It ran but eventually brought up an error pertaining to a dirty disc.  Maybe it was because I burned it at 8x speed.



0.0.0.0 ip adress usually means your network cable is not connected.

and dont download the games use dvd2xbox to copy yours, dirty disk is probably more like corrupted download.
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shambles1980

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« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2011, 07:38:00 AM »

to install applications you load up hexen disk and then you have the option to install the applications right there on the 1st screen, "install applications" then you can do install applications to E: or F:
you dont need to worry about the bios loader.

if your using a static ip address make sure its similar to your routers ip..

If your router ip is 192.168.0.**
then use 192.168.0.111 for your xbox,

If the router is 192.168.1.88
then use 192.168.1.111

but sounds like the cable your using dont work or is not connected.
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shambles1980

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« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2011, 12:15:00 PM »

when i upgrade disks i use xboxhdm 1.9
I copy the c and e drive from the xbox im upgrading "flashfxp"
I populate the Linux C and E folder with the contents, then i put the eeprom.bin file in the eeprom folder.
I tend to use a dvd so i have aproximatly 4gb of data i can copy from the C and E drives.
I click on the make iso bat file.

I burn the dvd with magic iso. (other people use other programs, nero, dvd decrypter excetera)

I turn off my pc and dissconnect all my drives.
I connect one IDE DVD playeras a SLAVE on the primary ide channel. I connect the hard disk to be upgraded to the same IDE channel set as MASTER.

i set the bios to not detect my primary master hard disk
(if my bios did not support that i would leave the hard disk connected to the IDE cable but only connect the 4 pin molex power AFTER the bios failed to detect the drive)
I set my bios to boot from cd.

I use the comands to build a hard disk from scratch answering yes to the questions.

I then Use the commands to lock the hard disk.
Lockhd -a

and then i can put it in my xbox.

Now after i just wrote all that i rememberd you dont have a pc to do this with,
Hexen disk does have the option to upgrade a hard disk but you will need a second power source to use that.
I doubt you have this either.

So i guess my only real answer is,
check irc for the files you want..
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Rxanadu

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« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2011, 03:39:00 PM »

I finally found a rar of chimps26, but the FTP is still not working for me.  I've typed in both of the addresses you gave me, and they still don't work.  The IP for the Xbox continues to default to 0.0.0.0 and returns to this even after changing it under Settings.

Do you think I could just use the flash drive to transfer items instead?

Also, I'm having a bit of some trouble figuring out how to slave my HD.  It's a Seagate 320gb harddrive, and it has a diagram on it saying something about "master = on" and "slave = off" while showing the jumper setting on the pins closest to the IDE cables.
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shambles1980

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« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2011, 03:47:00 PM »

Any psu that can stay on and power the hard disk will wor.
The ip adress going to 0.0.0.0 means you arent connected to a router or pc or whatever. CHECK YOUR CABLE

Jumpers settings..

A jumper is a little doo da that connects 2 pins together there will be a diagram showing you which 2 pins connected to each other sets the drive as any given state "off =" Means no jumper attached at all.

You can use the file manager and your usb device to transfer data.
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« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2011, 10:30:00 PM »

I finally went through the trouble of getting the drive cloned and locked only to be hit with an error page (with no numbers in the top-left) at boot-up.  I'm wondering what went wrong.  I got a compatible harddrive and everything.  I think is has to do with the HD not being reliable with a "1 2 3 4" or something.

Edit: Was I supposed to set the drive to master afterwards to trick the Xbox mb into thinking it was the real deal?  I didn't do that when I tested it last.  I also opted to clone "byte-by-byte", not for the partition cloning.
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« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2011, 07:39:00 AM »

Once you get a 4GB or less USB memory stick make sure it actually works on the Xbox. Attach it and as it will likely be FAT16 or 32 formatted the MS dash will give you an error message before formating it (to FATX).

If after that you still get an error message and/or the memory device does not appear in your MS dash 'Memory' or it or saves disappears from the dash during testing it is incompatible with the Xbox and obviously can't be used for this purpose.

When you attached it to the PC of course ignore any pop-up suggesting a reformat, you need to keep it FATX throughout the process.

It is sometimes forgotten that a Xbox 8MB official memory card and Xbox controller to USB adapter cable can be used to get the saves from PC to Xbox too. Both are still possible to source online.
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« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2011, 11:02:00 AM »

I just set the hd to master and put it in the system.  It seems to work normally now, but I noticed something something a bit odd: the F drive says "0.00GB", and the E drive read about 2300MB on it.  That makes no sense to me, since there should be tons of space on my new hd.  Aside from this, though, it seems like everything is intact, including my saved copy of Doom 3: RoH.

Hopefully, I didn't do anything wrong by putting the jumper to master.
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shambles1980

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« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2011, 12:29:00 PM »

try to enable F and G partitions in your unleashx dash.
i guess the partition tables could be wrong though due to cloning a 8gb hdd.
so i would use xbpartitioner Thats 1 of the applications that hexen can install for you.
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Rxanadu

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« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2011, 04:24:00 PM »

Turns out I may have to mess around with the partitions, after all.  FTP doesn't pick up any F or G drives.
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« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2011, 07:49:00 AM »

I'm finally done with softmodding my Xbox in the way I wanted.  Everything's working smoothly in terms of saving all my games to HD.  Thanks again to all the people who helped me in the process.  I hope you continue to aid people in need for this sort of thing.

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