Topic: Tutorial- Bigger Harddrive No Linux (Read 598 times)

Grospolina · « **Reply #45 on:** August 20, 2003, 12:25:00 PM »

1. Follow this tutorial: Formatting F: drive. I posted it in my previous message.

2. Add another Item and Action, just like in the above tutorial, but make these changes:
F: to E:
@210 to @211
[Action_10] to [Action_11]

If you don't care about your saves, then I'm pretty sure it's okay to format E: drive. Some homebrew apps use it too, but I think only for settings. And yes, you can FTP all of it over to your PC as a backup.

drezdar · « **Reply #46 on:** August 20, 2003, 02:06:00 PM »

Hmm...I'm getting an "error in action number" error when I try to use my Format E: function. I tried with @210 and [Action_10] as well as @211 and [Action_11] and both give me the same error. My evox.ini looks like this:

CODE

Section "Root"
{
   Item "Launch DVD",ID_Launch_DVD
   Item "MS Dashboard",ID_MS_Dash
   Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
   Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
   Item "Format E:",@211
#   Item "Flash Evox BIOS","c:biosd6.bin",ID_Flash_Bios_File

   Section "System Utils"
   {
Item "Settings",ID_Settings
Item "Flash BIOS",ID_Flash_Bios
Item "Backup",ID_Backup
Item "Skins",ID_Skins
   }
   Section "Launch Menu"
   {
    Section "Games"
{
    AutoAddItem "e:games"
    AutoAddItem "f:games"
    SortAll
}
Section "Apps"
{
    AutoAddItem "e:apps"
AutoAddItem "f:apps"
    SortAll
}
Section "Emulators"
{
    AutoAddItem "e:emulators"
AutoAddItem "f:emulators"
    SortAll
}
Section "Hacked Games"
    {
Item "BoxPlorer","e:Boxplorerdefault.xbe"
}
   }
}
Section Software
{
   Item XBMP,e:Appsxbmpdefault.xbe
   Item DVDX2,e:AppsDVDX2default.xbe
   AutoAddItems e:apps
}

   [Action_11]

   Info "Install HDD - Xbox-Scene"
   Warning "This will format E:"
   Progress "Formatting drives"
   ConfigSector "backupdisk.bin"
   Format e:

Any ideas what's wrong?

drezdar · « **Reply #47 on:** August 20, 2003, 02:10:00 PM »

Yay! I got it working, thanks a bunch!

I didn't read too carefully. What I ended up doing was deleting everything else in the menu and only adding that action and that menu item like it says. Worked like a charm and I got all my disk space back. Thank you!

Luciferhawke · « **Reply #48 on:** August 25, 2003, 08:15:00 PM »

(stupid me looking for the newest version instead of version 9.92 which worked great) great Tut

jim2011 · « **Reply #49 on:** August 28, 2003, 08:28:00 AM »

can someone point me to a tutorial for unlockx. I've searched but have not found something easy to understand. Do I need to use liveinfo or get the key from evo-x? Can I use the original hdd key for the new hdd key?

Grospolina · « **Reply #50 on:** August 28, 2003, 09:27:00 AM »

I might as well post it here for sake of completeness.

What you need:

EvolutionX installed and working on your Xbox
Win9x/DOS boot disk (boots to command prompt)
UnLockX
liveinfo

Setting up:
- Place unlockx.exe on the boot disk.
- In EvoX, use the "Backup" option.
- Get your eeprom.bin and hddkey.txt through FTP. It should be in backup.
- Print/write out your hddkey.

Unlocking the old Xbox HD:
1. Turn off your PC.
2. Connect your old Xbox HD to your PC's primary IDE channel. It may be master or slave, but it MUST be on the primary channel (a.k.a. IDE1).
3. You probably want to connect your new Xbox HD to the secondary IDE channel (master or slave) at this point, so that you can clone to it later.
4. Insert the boot disk and turn on your PC. You may want to set your CMOS not to detect the Xbox drive, so that it boots up faster. Of course, you also have to set it up to boot from the floppy.
5. You should be in the command prompt.
6. Type: unlockx [enter]
7. Select your Xbox drive. It should say "Lockable (AND locked)".
8. Type in your HD key, with no spaces or colons. e.g. 1133557799BBDDFF0022446688AACCEE
9. Press 'U' to unlock. This unlocks the drive, but doesn't disable the key. It MAY say that it couldn't unlock the drive, but really did. Confirm it in the next step.
10. Type: unlockx [enter]
11. Select your Xbox drive. If it's unlocked, it should say "Unlocked (reboot to set)" or something.
12. Type in your HD key again.
13. Press 'U' to unlock. This disables the key permanently.
14. You can run unlockx once more to confirm that it is unlocked. It should say "Lockable (NOT locked)".
15. Reboot your PC without the boot disk and go clone it and/or back it up!

Locking your new Xbox HD:
1. In Windows, with your Xbox HD installed, run liveinfo. Don't forget to clone the drive at some point!
2. Load the eeprom.bin file and select your new Xbox HD.
3. Write down your new HD key (NOT the unique key).
1. Turn off your PC.
2. Connect your new Xbox HD to your PC's primary IDE channel. It may be master or slave, but it MUST be on the primary channel (a.k.a. IDE1).
3. Insert the boot disk and turn on your PC. You should boot to the command prompt.
6. Type: unlockx [enter]
7. Select your Xbox drive. It should say "Lockable (NOT locked)".
8. Type in your NEW liveinfo HD key, with no spaces or colons. e.g. 0022446688AACCEE1133557799BBDDFF
9. Press 'L' to lock. This locks the drive.
10. You can run unlockx once more to confirm that it is unlocked. It should say "Unlocked (reboot to set)" or something.
11. If you want, you can reboot and run unlockx again to verify that it says "Lockable (AND locked)".
12. Turn off your PC and try out your new Xbox drive!
13. Assuming it worked, format F: drive to see your new space (it may be 0 or at some strange number before you format).

ProdigyXP · « **Reply #51 on:** August 30, 2003, 01:14:00 AM »

sabwafare · « **Reply #52 on:** August 30, 2003, 02:56:00 AM »

ProdigyXP · « **Reply #53 on:** August 30, 2003, 11:31:00 AM »

) exploits, etc. I would then like to be able to throw my old (original drive) back in.

What I want to know is if I am supposed to RE-lock my original XBOX drive after I do the cloning to a new drive. I noticed in Grospolina's last post that he says "13. Press 'U' to unlock. This disables the key permanently." and never mentions relocking the original drive. Does this mean that I don't (can't?) relock the original drive? Would it work if I had to put the original drive back in my Xbox?

This might sound like a real noob question, but I am a noob afterall.

sabwafare · « **Reply #54 on:** August 31, 2003, 05:17:00 PM »

If you want to use the old drive in your xbox, then yes it has to be locked. I just didn't add it to the tut because I thought it was obvious...

megaman23 · « **Reply #55 on:** August 31, 2003, 07:15:00 PM »

is unlockx.exe one of those program that is hard to find? i have been looking forever for it

ProdigyXP · « **Reply #56 on:** September 01, 2003, 01:54:00 AM »

Grospolina · « **Reply #57 on:** September 01, 2003, 10:18:00 PM »

rocketeer · « **Reply #58 on:** September 03, 2003, 10:13:00 AM »

I get a different HD key when loading eeprom.bin with liveinfo than the key from the hddinfo.txt backup file.

Which key is the correct one (if any) and why is at least one of them wrong?

Grospolina · « **Reply #59 on:** September 03, 2003, 10:39:00 AM »

The key for your new drive will be different from the key for your old drive. I assume that you're trying it on your new drive.

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