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[Grospolina]

You're seeing 0 with the font exploit because you're probably not using Phoenix BIOS Loader with an F:drive-enabled BIOS.  The retail BIOS won't be able to see F: drive.  Even if you loaded PBL, it would still show 33 gigs.  You'll need to format F: in order to see the full space.  How much stuff do you have on F:?  Can you back it up on your PC through FTP?

[Grospolina]

QUOTE (rocketeer @ Sep 3 2003, 03:48 PM)

Negative, the hddinfo.txt is from the "Backup" alternative in Evox, and the eeprom.bin from the same backup is loaded with liveinfo.

Well then, did you already unlock the old drive?  If not, then maybe liveinfo can't get the proper info (model and serial, I think) from the drive if it's still locked.  If it is unlocked, then I don't know why it would be different.  However, if it's already unlocked, is it really that important?  If you lock the new drive with the wrong pass, then you can always unlock it again.

[rocketeer]

To clearify, the Xbox drive is still in the Xbox. Maybe I'm totally wrong about this, but i thought that if you use the "Load eprom" function in liveinfo with the eprom.bin from the Evox backup, it would give information regarding the Xbox HD - from information in the eprom file only regardless which drives are attached to the PC at the moment...

This is the log produced by liveinfo:

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#Please note ALL fields and Values are Case Sensitive !! [EEPROMDATA] XBOXSerial   = "211378521223" XBOXMAC  = "00:50:F2:77:96:E8" OnlineKey   = "2F:88:27:F3:EA:FA:EE:E2:EE:B4:3C:BC:B8:ED:2E:B5" #ONLY Use NTSC or PAL for VideoMode VideoMode   = "PAL" #ONLY Use 01, 02 or 04 for XBE Region XBERegion   = "04" HDDKey  = "F9:70:6A:F3:02:7F:BD:ED:94:8A:67:7E:2F:D2:A1:45" Confounder   = "00:00:00:00:80:4A:1C:00"

(Some values are changed)

Also note that both the hddinfo.txt and eeprom.bin were created from the same "backup" call in EvoX menu. Locked or unlocked? Dunno, did the hotswap trick to install ernie & bert stuff.

[Grospolina]

No, the password is calculated from the model number, the serial number, and the EEPROM file.  The EEPROM file doesn't have the model and serial numbers, so you have to plug in the HDD in order to retrieve them.  If you'll notice, the "HDD Info" box has a drop list where you can pick the location of your Xbox drive.  Right now, it's just grabbing the model and serial numbers from your PC's HDD, so that's why it's wrong.  The "EEPROM Info" box should be correct, however.

I'm using LiveInfo Beta 2.

[ProdigyXP]

A BIG "Thank you!" to sabwafare & Grospolina for all the help & info in this thread. I successfully (and fairly easily) did the hard drive upgrade without any hot-swapping of the hard drives, etc. As a matter of fact, it was so easy that not only did I upgrade my Xbox drive to a 120GB, but I also made an additional clone of my original drive so that I would never (in theory) have to mess around with my original drive again (it's now stored away safely).

Thanks again, guys. And I'm sure my wife thanks you because I can stop buying 25 DVD-R disc spindles like they're going out of style.

[Mordenkainen]

Here's a question that perhaps you can answer.

Can I lock the new drive with config magic by:
1. Boot the X with the original drive in, and start ConfigMagic.
2. Once CM is up, hotswap to my NEW drive, which is fed power from a splitter.
3. Get CM to detect the drive change, and lock the drive?

I haven't tried this yet as I don't want to damage anything. But would this work?

Morden.

[Grospolina]

QUOTE (ProdigyXP)

A BIG "Thank you!" to sabwafare & Grospolina for all the help & info in this thread. I successfully (and fairly easily) did the hard drive upgrade without any hot-swapping of the hard drives, etc. As a matter of fact, it was so easy that not only did I upgrade my Xbox drive to a 120GB, but I also made an additional clone of my original drive so that I would never (in theory) have to mess around with my original drive again (it's now stored away safely).

You're welcome!  And good job!

QUOTE (Mordenkainen)

Can I lock the new drive with config magic by: 1. Boot the X with the original drive in, and start ConfigMagic. 2. Once CM is up, hotswap to my NEW drive, which is fed power from a splitter. 3. Get CM to detect the drive change, and lock the drive? I haven't tried this yet as I don't want to damage anything. But would this work?

There is only one way I can see it NOT working, and that's if ConfigMagic can't refresh to the new model, serial and EEPROM.

By the way, couldn't you just unplug the old drive and plug in the new one?  The new one isn't locked, so there isn't any reason for it to be powered at bootup.  The old drive doesn't need it's power preserved (after unhooking it) either.  I'd first unplug the power before unplugging the IDE cable to see if that works, IF I were doing it that way.

[sabwafare]

Well, I don't see why it wouldn't be able to refresh. I would try powering it after boot, even if it was locked it wouldn't unlock without the IDE attatched.

[rocketeer]

QUOTE (Grospolina @ Sep 3 2003, 11:05 PM)

No, the password is calculated from the model number, the serial number, and the EEPROM file.  The EEPROM file doesn't have the model and serial numbers, so you have to plug in the HDD in order to retrieve them.  If you'll notice, the "HDD Info" box has a drop list where you can pick the location of your Xbox drive.  Right now, it's just grabbing the model and serial numbers from your PC's HDD, so that's why it's wrong.  The "EEPROM Info" box should be correct, however. I'm using LiveInfo Beta 2.

Thank you, now that makes sense!

[xmroph]

sry for n00bish question, but with what key should i unlock/relock xbox-hd? one from  hddinfo.txt (its the same as in liveinfo calculated password under HDD info) or from eeprom.bin "unique HDD key" they are diffrent keys
tnx.

[Grospolina]

QUOTE (xmroph @ Sep 4 2003, 09:13 AM)

sry for n00bish question, but with what key should i unlock/relock xbox-hd? one from  hddinfo.txt (its the same as in liveinfo calculated password under HDD info) or from eeprom.bin "unique HDD key" they are diffrent keys tnx.

The one in hddkey.txt is used for unlocking and relocking your old drive (but not your new drive).

[xmroph]

QUOTE (Grospolina @ Sep 4 2003, 04:35 PM)

QUOTE (xmroph @ Sep 4 2003, 09:13 AM) sry for n00bish question, but with what key should i unlock/relock xbox-hd? one from  hddinfo.txt (its the same as in liveinfo calculated password under HDD info) or from eeprom.bin "unique HDD key" they are diffrent keys tnx. The one in hddkey.txt is used for unlocking and relocking your old drive (but not your new drive).

ok thx alot i just want to be sure
cheers  

[LESTAT]

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By the way, couldn't you just unplug the old drive and plug in the new one? The new one isn't locked, so there isn't any reason for it to be powered at bootup. The old drive doesn't need it's power preserved (after unhooking it) either. I'd first unplug the power before unplugging the IDE cable to see if that works, IF I were doing it that way.

ok you go ahead and try to unplug a hot hard drive or any drive for that matter what its powered on,, and i mean the power cable not the ide,,

people are worried about frying stuff when pulling the ide cable,,

1)
theres a 99.99999% chance the power supply will just instantly shut off cuz the cord was pulled,, its more aor less a safety feature of ANY power supply.

2)
if you dont fry the power supply theres a good chance of frying the hard drive from a POSSIBLE arc of juice from the plug to the hard drive pins,,,


3)

i thought about this,, but you would have to have a PC power supply right there for the extra power cord  unless you wanted to do a 3-way split with the xbox power supply,, and it would more than likely handle it no prob but in the interest of safety,  dont,, use a pc power supply .

and remember make sure your hard drive is even lockable prior to this or it will all be for nothing.

[rocketeer]

Big thanks to Grospolina for the very clear 28 step unlock/lock post on page 3  - you can _never_ be too clear when explaining things that are new and unfamiliar for someone who has never performed the task before

I replaced my original HD today with a 120 GB Deskstar. The only things that weren't really clear to me before was the lock/unlock issue and keys, but Grospolinas nice post cleared it all out.

Basically i followed the original post by sabwafare but since I don't want to buy a license for Winhex I used my XLinux CD that I allready had from my font install to copy the disk contents:

1. Booted with a win98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com and unlocked Xbox original drive with key from hddinfo.txt.

2. Booted from Xlinux CD and copied the original disk:

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dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

Took ~10 mins for the copy (/dev/hda=primary master and /dev/hdb=primary slave and the CD was on secondary master - this was my setup).

3. Booted into Win2k and got new key from liveinfo with eeprom.bin loaded.

4. Booted with the win98 bootdisk again and locked new drive with new key.

5. Put new hd into XBbox and did "Format F" from Evox menu.

Wee - 115 gigs free!!