Topic: Xbox Hard Drive Detection On Pc (Read 180 times)

luther349 · « **on:** July 10, 2003, 02:12:00 PM »

heh my pc saw the drive but hd-driver didnt so the bugs in that program made my swap fale.

roofus · « **Reply #1 on:** July 10, 2003, 02:13:00 PM »

Recommended config: (or at least what worked for me) for least trouble:
-primary hd as only drive on primary ide channel
-xbox hd as only drive on secondary

though I have gotten it to work on my ata100 port before, you might as well try this out
both ide ports support harddrives. it isn't detected for some other reason (I got this before too. follow these steps, and above all, try try again)

what I did with my 2k machine:
-either master or cable select works. I would recommend you leave it on cable select
-leave xbox power cable in harddrive, ide cable in harddrive
-let xbox boot to game menu or something that isn't going to use the harddrive too often
-boot up computer, as soon as possible (right after the vga bios, during memory test), press the Pause Break key, right next to the scroll lock key, above page up.
-after the computer's startup is paused, unplug the xbox hd cable and plug in the one from your computer.
-hit any key to continue
-check and see if the bios detects the harddrive. if it doesn't check all the steps and try again.

speedgt078 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 10, 2003, 03:17:00 PM »

My pc finds the hard drive (i see the hard drive in my device manager) but hdd_driver wont find it? I downloaded winhex and it sees it but i cant do anything with winhex because its a trial version....Is my drive still locked or is hdd_driver really buggy?

modestrabbit · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2003, 06:02:00 PM »

I have been able to get my computer to the Bios Configure screen on my Windows XP Pro machine by holding down the F1 key as I turn on my PC. Does anybody know how I should configure my Bios at this point (specfic menu options)?

Also, my way of checking to see if the hard drive has been detected by Windows is looking under "My Computer." With all the efforts I have made I have only seen the C drive. Is there some other way of determining that my Xbox hard drive has been detected. How do I know if the bios has detected it?

roofus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2003, 07:09:00 PM »

well there should be four options, all usually set on auto, for primary master, slave, secondary master,slave. hit enter twice for the option where it says auto, and if it detected it, auto will be replaced with what the drive returned as it's model number.

modestrabbit · « **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2003, 07:22:00 PM »

So I should set my second IDE Master to auto and leave the 1st IDE master as is?

roofus · « **Reply #6 on:** July 10, 2003, 07:24:00 PM »

They should all ideally be on auto, it's just hitting enter on one of those settings twice just refreshes and shows you what results it got when it checked what was the master / slave on that channel.

modestrabbit · « **Reply #7 on:** July 10, 2003, 07:53:00 PM »

So if I were to hit enter twice on the secondary master where the Xbox hard drive is connected, this would be my way of determining whether or not my PC is able to detect it?

modestrabbit · « **Reply #8 on:** July 10, 2003, 09:50:00 PM »

The Bios Configure screen when I boot up my PC recognizes the hard drive, but HDD loader still does not. I am fine with using xLinux, but is there a way to backup the hard drive?

eug2k · « **Reply #9 on:** July 10, 2003, 09:53:00 PM »

of course, if you see the files you can back them up
NOTE: Linux only sees ext and fat partitions so if you dont have one there is no place to backup to.

Craptastic! · « **Reply #10 on:** July 10, 2003, 10:06:00 PM »

[fixed]

eug2k · « **Reply #11 on:** July 10, 2003, 10:06:00 PM »

hrm
yea what the fuck where they thinking you have to use the xbox hdd on the cd rom ide and you also have to boot from cd
seems impossible since they both need to be plugged in on boot to go through bios detection otherwise no OS will see them

eug2k · « **Reply #12 on:** July 10, 2003, 10:07:00 PM »

ok gotta put on my dunce cap there is another plug on that ide cable plug your cd rom in there
(xbox hard drive is plugged into the end of the cable and cd rom is plugged into the middle)

modestrabbit · « **Reply #13 on:** July 11, 2003, 08:43:00 AM »

If I were to copy my files from my Xbox hard drive to my PC hard drive, what commands would I enter in xLinux?

luther349 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 11, 2003, 10:03:00 AM »

Xlinux boot cd dont work for me just boots normaly so i think xbins has a bad iso. as for hd-driver mine still does the same xp sees the drive hd-driver doesent. but tomrow a frend with a mem card and mechassalt is coming over soo screw the swap.

Author Topic: Xbox Hard Drive Detection On Pc (Read 180 times)