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[MpDay]

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my xbox hard drive never stops spinning. It went for 8 hours just at the dash yesterday without a stop...

Yes, I have the same problem! For some reason, the HDD never stops spinning, and ALL the time I hear the HDD platter *tick-tick* every 2 seconds. It's like the HDD is always busy...

...Is it possible that the HDD needs to load the background audio in the dashboard all the time?

Anyway, i have a 1.5 Xbox, Kernel 5530 and Dash 5659

Due to the fact that the drive never stops spinning (IDEAS, ANYONE??), I HAD to try the hot-swap trick, heh, so I did the following:

- I connected the PC power cable to my Xbox HDD, while it was still connected to the Xbox' IDE
- Turned on the PC and pressed Pause BEFORE the IDE Auto detection. (I have an nForce2 mobo from MSI)
- I turned on my Xbox and waited for the dash to show up.
- Because the drive doesn't stop spinning, I disconnected the Xbox IDE cable right away, and plugged in the PC IDE cable (stand-alone sec. master)
- Pressed space-bar and let the BIOS continue the HDD Auto detect.
- It detected a WD80EB (Western Digital), which is correct.
- After that, it took about 3 minutes before the BIOS continued.
- After the BIOS, the system again stops at "Verifying DMI pool... Success"
- Windows XP doesn't boot, because for some reason, my PC is unable to find my primary IDE HD.
- After about 2 minutes, my mobo starts nVidia LAN BOOT Manager, heh, so it is unable to boot from my primary IDE HD.

Why?? The BIOS detects my Primary IDE HD with no probs, but after the BIOS, the system is unable to detect my primary 'Windows XP' HD.
Should an "inside-Windows XP" hot swap be a solution?

I tried the above swap-trick for about 6 times now, even with a 80 conductor IDE cable, because my mobo gave me a warning about that.
After all, WHY doesn't my Xbox HDD spin down?! Is it because the new kernel and/or dash?

Tnx.
MP

[manic_miner]

 And they say lifes easy!!!!!

[Killa996]

what if im in clock loop and i want to do a hotswap when should i unplug the hd ?

[kevinlekiller]

Unplug the Dvd IDE, Or the xbox will always reboot and you wont be able to hotswap. So unpluging the dvd boots up to an error and the xbox doesnt reboot.

[KanesRage]

by the way my xbox is a V1.1 4817/4920.

[Vegeta700]

[chaoscreator]

[Ronnie]

[krayzie]

sigh...no it won't work...eeprom...hdkeys...locked.... sorry I feel tired...too many same questions

[Ronnie]

[voltaboy]

QUOTE (Vegeta700 @ May 17 2004, 05:10 AM)

Hi i got a problem trying to Make (windows XP Pro Edition with service pack 1 and .net installed)  windows xp go thru correctly.  I did both Ways of installing the xbox hard drive to the pc. i did the loading the xbox then unplugging the hard drive after 10 mins then connecting it to the pc and it does get recognized but windows xp freezes during the loading up screen. this happens to me on both ways connecting the xbox hard drive to the pc. Can anyone plz help me on my problem thank u .

i have the same problem. does anybody know how to get past this?

[punchy73]

Instead of hooking up IDE cable to the computer IDE cable...can the IDE cable be modded to a USB connector at one end and attached in 1.0 or 2.0 USB slot on a compter?  I'm guessing Windows can detect the XBOX HDD as an external hard drive

[banshee343]

hi i was wondering if i manage to fully set this up on my old xbox hdd 8gb
(i modded mine with mod chip got a 120gb now) then could i put the modded 8gb in my comp back it up then put my friends original unmodded xbox hard drive in my comp and restore it with my modded bakup
sorry if you cant understand what im saying or has been answere b4

[Anthony52]

This is for everyone who cant get HD driver to work , its a package of HD driver with all of the needed DLL's
http://members.shaw.ca/tonymoon52/HDD%20Dr...20dll's.zip
i just did a hotswap and i didint see any c,e,f drive's is this normal? they was other folders in there like game cache

[Anthony52]

Im also working on Translating HD_fatXbox_Explorer_1.4 from french 2 english.
Its 99% staple and you can make folders, its perfect for copying gamesaves 2 the HDD(No DLL's Needed)