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[caathptca]

btw it's the B&E from july 25th release

[peasofcrap]

yeah i would like to know also, please someone help us!!!!

[jinsatoemo]

Hello,

I have enigmah,v1 xbox and  I use 40gb hdd with PBL v1.3.Here's how I did it:

1)Get a bigger hdd that can be locked and lock it with Unlockx using infos from Live Info and Evox eeprom backup.
2)Assemble the new hdd in your xbox and boot it with Evox HDD preparer cd.Format the hdd,remove evox cd and reboot xbox.You should boot normally now.
3)Install PBL 1.3 with bios of your choice as instructed without the fonts,you don't need it because your using a modchip.My C partition configs along with other files are:

PBL 1.3 as xboxdash.xbe
4977 BFM bios as xboxrom.bin
Evox as evoxdash.xbe
Original xboxdash as msxboxdash.xbe

4)Xbox will boot to PBL with 4977 BFM bios and launch evox.From here,format  the F drive using the raw commands from Flashfxp or any other ftp client program.

5)Your xbox can now use F partition.


Other method
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1)Make ghost image of any xbox that uses the SAME configs as above.I've ghosted my original hdd(10gb) that have been prepared wit the same configs as my new hdd.You have to unlock the hdd first by using config magic before you can ghost it in pc.  

2)Get any hdd bigger or same as the ghosted image and ghost it with the image that you've created.No need to lock the new hdd as it will boot just fine with PBL and 4977 bios.

3)Format F partition if necessary.

4)This works only on xboxes with modchips(enigmah and xtender to be exact)

My apologies if the explanations seems too shallow because I wrote this in a hurry.give it a try

[peasofcrap]

thanks for the help, ill try to interpret what you said up there and go for it!!!

[caathptca]

I still need help. I can unlock my hd using config magic right. Can't I just switch drives, use evox boot disc then ftp into my pc and upload my current c and e drives onto the new hdd then use config magic and relock?

[peasofcrap]

crap i think we need a step by step on this, help please!!  we are retarted.

[jinsatoemo]

Hello,

I assumed that you have your xbox with the original hdd in it.

1)Install Evox in your xbox.
2)Get the Complete_Signed_ Phoenix_ Bios_ Loader_ 1.3.rar from the usual places.Transfer these components to xbox c.

boot.cfg            
default.xbe  
phoenix.raw
xboxrom.bin
evoxdash.xbe

3)With those components on your xbox C now,let’s do some changes:

Delete xboxdash.xbe(evox)
Rename default.xbe(PBL 1.3) to xboxdash.xbe
Make sure you’ve edited evox.ini according to your needs
You don’t need to install the fonts because your using a modchip.

4)Reboot xbox,it should boot PBL with X2 4977 BFM bios and then to Evox.

5)From here basically the master copy is done,so you need to duplicate the hdd now.There are 4 steps that I knew for cloning the hdd.But before that you need to unlock the hdd with Config Magic to make it accessible in pc.

6)Transfer the contents of your xbox C to pc and keep it in a folder namely Xboxc

7)Four methods that I knew on how to clone the hdd

Method 1
By using Xlinux  to dump the xbox image to a temporary drive and dump it back to the new xbox hdd.
Click here.Posted by Hvk

Method 2
Burn the contents of xbox c on a cdrw.Use Xlinux to mount the cdrom and copy the contents to the new xbox hdd.

Method 3
Copy sectors of original xbox hdd to new xbox hdd by using Winhex.
Click here.Posted by Sabwafare

Method 4(the one that I use)
Ghost the original xbox hdd with Norton ghost 2003 with the “ir” switch.It takes about 6-8gb of space for the image.Ghost the xbox hdd image to the new hdd.Any bigger hdd will do and it’s not required to lock the new hdd as it would boot fine with PBL installed.Once booted it’s still recommended to lock your new hdd with Config Magic(if it’s lockable).Format the F drive by sending raw ftp command:

Formatpath \Device\Harddisk0\Partition6
FormatDrive 'the number'

8)Your xbox is now ready.

Caathptca,I'll try it later and let you know the results

Give it a try !

[peasofcrap]

cool, will try this later!!  this board rules!!  what brands of drives are lockable?  is there a certain brand everyone likes or what should i look for in buying a new drive to upgrade to know its lockable?

[vintage_guitar]

seagate/western digital

[caathptca]

someone help me out here, I'm a moron. I used config magic, unlock harddrive on xbox original. Used hdd prep and prepped seagate 120 barracuda drive off of primary slave. attached xbox drive to secondary slave. ran winhex copied xbox to seagate. booted unlockx ran unlockx. exe gave me 2 drives my maxtor and wd, stated both were unlockable. Just to try my luck Placed 120 into xbox got an error 5 (what's that mean) code replaced original xbox drive still an error 5 code. Don't know where to go next. Have enigmah chip my og xbox drive has phoenix 1.3 and font hack. Ps yes I have my drives backed up on my comp. I cannot however run liveinfo as I don't has xp only ME. SOmebody steer me right . I've wasted 3 days tring to upgrade.

[peasofcrap]

5 - kernel - HDD not locked (retail bioses require the hd to be locked)

shit i just went out and bought a maxtor drive...not lockable?

[caathptca]

anyone ?

[jinsatoemo]

Hello,

Error 5 means that xbox can't unlock your hdd.If you have the eeprom backup either by config magic or evox on your pc,you can get the hdd key from there and lock the hdd back with unlockx.If you haven't,you have to borrow someone's xbox with a mod(that has hdd patch bios) installed and then reconfigured your hdd the way that I've shown you above.However it should boot to evox with an unlocked hdd if done correctly.....

Make sure that you set PBL the way that I've instructed.There are 2 ways for configuring PBL,for modded xbox and for unmodded xbox.

PBL for unmodded xbox
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1)Need to have the hacked fonts(Bert and Ernie,Bigfonts,etc) installed with the following components in xbox C partition:
- Original xbox dash as xboxdash.xbe
- PBL 1.3 as default.xbe
- Rename any working BFM bios that supports HDD swapping to xboxrom.bin and make sure that the size is 1mb.I use X2 4977 BFM.
- Boot.cfg is the PBL config file
- Phoenix.raw is the intro splash screen
- Evoxdash.xbe(signed with xbedump) is the dasboard

2)With these config,xbox hdd needs to be LOCKED.Upon booting,xbox will launch xboxdash.xbe and then default.xbe(PBL).The hack fonts here allows default.xbe(PBL),evoxdash.xbe(evox) and other non M$ unsigned code to be executed.Then PBL will run evoxdash.xbe along with X2 4977 BFM bios.You will face a lot of reboot looping process with this method if your not lucky.

3)EOF

PBL for modded xbox(enigmah and Xtender)
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1)Enigmah and Xtender doesn't have the capability to see hdd over 8gb in size.Also it won't allow any unlocked hdd to be booted.

2)If you installed PBL with x2 4977 and set it to boot first,it will somehow bypass the hdd lock checking thus enabling any unlocked hdd with the same configurations to be booted.It's the X2 4977 bios feature(hdd hack patch) actually but I'm not sure how PBL managed to be executed before the stock bios checks the hdd for lock keys .

3)The PBL Installations steps for modded xbox are:
- Install Evox in xbox first and configure it properly.
- Your xbox C now should have
 a) Evox executable as xboxdash.xbe
  Original Xbox dash as msxboxdash.xbe or any other name that you prefered.
 c) Evox.ini which is the evox config file.
 d) Skins folder among other xbox system files.

- Get the Signed PBL 1.3 package and extract these contents to xbox C:
 a)default.xbe
 b)phoenix.raw
 c)boot.cfg
 d)xboxrom.bin
 e)evoxdash.xbe - not needed if you want to use the existing evox(xboxdash.xbe) in xbox
  f)evox.ini - not needed if you want to use the existing evox.ini in xbox

- Rename these files on xbox C so that xbox will boot to PBL with X2 4977 bios and then evox.
  a)xboxdash.xbe(existing evox) rename to evoxdash.xbe OR delete xboxdash.xbe and transfer evoxdash.xbe from the PBL package.
  b)default.xbe(PBL executable) rename to xboxdash.xbe

- There's no need to copy the hacked fonts to xbox C because you're already using a modchip and can boot unsigned executables.

- Configure boot.cfg according to your needs(LED light,alternate bios) or just leave it as default.

- Make sure that xboxrom.bin is 1mb in size and contains the working bios for PBL and have the hdd hack patch feature.Just use X2 4977 BFM to be safe.The xboxrom.bin included in the PBL package is X2 4977 BFM and is 1mb in size.

- Reboot and xbox will boot to PBL,PBL will load X2 4977 and then loads evox.

4)EOF

From here,you need to unlock the hdd so that you can ghost the image in pc.Then you can ghost the xbox image to any same or bigger hdd and xbox will boot it normally.You don't need a hdd that can be locked as xbox will boot the unlocked hdd just fine.But I still recommend that you locked your hdd upon successfull booting(if the hdd support locking).

My apologies if my explanations seems repetitive and useless  

[caathptca]

Thanks Jin you're a big help, much appreciated. gonna go try and lock xbox hdd again. I still had font exploit on my xbox drive when I tried to upgrade, didn't think it would matter with chip installed, Boy was I wrong.

[peasofcrap]

thanks for the heads up jin!!!

caathptca, did you delete the fonts and try to run without locking the drive, since you have the enigmah you dont need the fonts.  

tell me the results please!@!