Topic: About A New Hard Drive... (Read 169 times)

gordita37 · « **on:** September 22, 2003, 05:59:00 PM »

Well my old xbox hdd is fried... smoke came out of it.... scary... anyways.. im getting a new hdd today cause people said that would be the best way. i have my eeprom.bin file and i would use lifeinfo2, it sounds good right? well i just thought of something since it would be a new hdd i would want to restore my backed up image to it... but how could hdd driver restore the image if its not an xbox hdd? or does there just need to be any hdd plugged into my dvd or cd ide cable? sounds a little weird to me...

gordita37 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2003, 08:22:00 PM »

that part about you trusting that i have a friend that has a mod-chip.... uhh dont trust that cause i dont have a friend with a mod-chip...

gordita37 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 22, 2003, 09:36:00 PM »

umm ok i just tried putting the hdd into my pc... but its unformatted, so do i have to format this for it to work? when i went to manage under my computer it didnt say that there was a drive there. the hdd was plugged into my dvd's IDE cable. i already tried running liveinfo and it said there was nothing in any of my physical drives exept for 0 which is just my pc's hdd.. but i think before with my old hdd ( the one that smoke came out of) i think i might have put it in my cd IDE cable and it worked but not in the dvd's IDE cable... hmmm.. maybe i'll try putting it in my cd IDE cable tommorow... but right now im tired. so good night

deadly · « **Reply #3 on:** September 22, 2003, 10:13:00 PM »

Use HDDPreparer13 then format "only 1st 4096 sectors of partitions" make sure you select ur newHDD and not the PC on.Then use hdd-driver then restore image to newHDD that should work.THen use LiveInfo to generate new password or calculate.

gordita37 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2003, 05:04:00 AM »

Ok but is HDDPreparer13 a ms-dos program? and must the new hdd be plugged into my dvd or cd IDE cable or should it be plugged into my hdd IDE cable? i'll go look for this program right now on good ol' google... thx

EDIT: I Guess i already have HDDPreparer13 but the question is do i plud it into my primarary IDE cable? or just my other IDE cable...and i just opened it and its not ms-dos...
and when i do this would i leave it on where it sais zero'ing?

gordita37 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2003, 09:50:00 AM »

now the last question do i plug my hdd into either my cd or dvd IDE cable? i'll just try this once i get home cause im at school right now. and what do u mean by

"zeroing is part of the process probably take fuckin ages"

do u just mean it takes a while to do it or wat? thx

Sottilde · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2003, 01:17:00 PM »

Not the greatest of answers around here. Use xhdprepa from windows. Zero just the first 4096 sectors. Shouldn't take more than 5 seconds. Make sure you choose the right drive. After you do this, use HDD-Driver to restore the image. Ignore any error messages you get.

The drive can be unformatted, that's fine. That's the way it should be anyhow - doesn't matter if you do format it though. Xhdprepa gets rid of that.

By the way, just hook the new HD on it's OWN cable. Doesn't matter if it's secondary or primary, just NOT SLAVE.

Download hddunlock from the usual places. Boot into dos with any sort of boot disk. Run hdlock.exe and use the key from liveinfo. This should lock it fine, and then just pop it in the xbox, simple as that!

gordita37 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2003, 03:00:00 PM »

Well god dang... finally about time that someone posted up all da answers instead of just like one at a time.. no offense everyone its just cool that Sottilde did all that... thx Sottilde!!
i just got home from school so im gonna try it out like right now... maybe in a half an hour or somethin cause i pooped... anyways thx.. i'll post again if soemthing goes wrong or something!!

Mordenkainen · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2003, 03:13:00 PM »

If you get the error "No XBox HDD Detected" or something like that, use Hex WorkShop or some other Sector Editor and put the chars BRFR at location 0x600 on the blank drive. Then you will be able to restore your backup.

Morden.

gordita37 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2003, 03:21:00 PM »

k thx Mordenkainen but thats not my problem right now... you see i just put my hdd in my dvd IDE cable and nothing detects it... i open hdprepar or watever its called and it just shows my pc's hdd... do i have to plug the new hdd into my primary hdd slot? and in case ur wondering i right clicked my computer went to manage.. device manager... disk drives and it still only showed my one drive for my pc...

gordita37 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2003, 03:40:00 PM »

Yea but other people tell me to use hddprepara and you didn't... and you said pretty much and IDE cable is fine... and it isn't... so now wat?

gordita37 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2003, 03:57:00 PM »

bad day?

gordita37 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2003, 05:52:00 PM »

i did that thing ui told me to do Mordenkainen but i got error like things when trying to save and i got error while trying to save... im using
winhex and thats about it...

gordita37 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 23, 2003, 10:22:00 PM »

well does anyone have any idea how i can get hdd driver to read my xbox hdd?

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