Topic: Xbox Hd Rescue/(re)builder Cd. All-in-one Package (Read 1996 times)

CanBert · « **Reply #45 on:** April 24, 2004, 08:45:00 AM »

Worked good, only thing it didn't do was format the F drive...was it supposed to???
So had to do it manually which is tricky on a softmod....had to use config .. unloc k..get to evox .. format and back to config to lock again..other then that worked good.

X_n00b · « **Reply #46 on:** April 24, 2004, 09:30:00 AM »

I'm a bit of a n00b, but I was reading this thread in anticipation of this weekend. I was hoping to pop into town and purchase a memory card to softmod my XBOX. Unfortunately no-one seemed to have any in stock ... so late this afternoon I decided to hotswap instead.

Well after several attempts finally mananged to get the SC exploit working with the help of this package.

Hopefully tomorrow, I can copy the backups I made and put in a slightly bigger harddisk.

Great work on this package!

ldots · « **Reply #47 on:** April 24, 2004, 11:51:00 AM »

devz3ro · « **Reply #48 on:** April 24, 2004, 10:20:00 PM »

Great job, keep up the good work, temp pin.

-devz3ro

http://sh0x.tk/

mkjones · « **Reply #49 on:** April 25, 2004, 02:17:00 AM »

Well done on the sticky man

This really is a great tool for softmodders and mochipers alike

zorxd · « **Reply #50 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:14:00 AM »

If you want to add it into your next readme, it seems to requiere at least 64Mb of RAM for the linux part of xboxhdm to boot properly

zedhead · « **Reply #51 on:** April 25, 2004, 09:29:00 AM »

Hi Idot, I recieved your PM, thanx found what I needed.

I am running into some problems though. I created the ISO for the cd. I had the 007 gamesave on the xbox so I used it to load Evox from the save just to backup the xbox to my pc. I then placed the eeprom bin file in the eeprom folder for your package and copyed the c drive and f drive to the folder of your package.

I disconnected all the drives from my win2k machine and connected a new 60gb WD. and the cd drive. I was able to boot into xboxhd and followed all the directions for "option 1" after it was done I put the new hard drive into the xbox and received the xbox needs service message.

So I disconnected the 60gb and pout back the original HD, botted up the xbox and everything worked again.

I decided maybe I should try "option 3" then and I connected the 60 gb to my PC again as Primary 1, and connected the xbox hd as secondary2. I booted into xboxhd again and selected "option 3" to clone the drive. I selected the correct drives for source and destination and it seemed to go well. I took your advice and left to get a beer while I wited for the cloning to finish. when I returned a few minutes later the pc was back to the options choices menu. so I shutdown and put the 60gb into the xbox and again it popped up the needs servicing message. Just in case I did mixed up the drives on the clone I put the original back in and it booted fine again.

Sorry for the long explanation but I want to make sure I cover everything I did. DO you have any suggestions? Did I need to change/softmod/etc. on the original drive first? Does the xbox accept a larger hard drive without changing anything on the original before the clone? Any tips or suggestions would be great.

Anyway thanx for an awsome contribution and I hope my problem sparks some ideas on how to fix it.

cheers,

Zed

rabid-platypus · « **Reply #52 on:** April 25, 2004, 01:40:00 PM »

what error number are you getting? did you lock the drive before putting it back in your xbox?

i had a drive i was trying to use that turned out not to support locking (figured it out with live info).

zedhead · « **Reply #53 on:** April 25, 2004, 02:47:00 PM »

Hi Rabid, I wasnt getting an error number (or I didnt notice one) it would just load straight to the your xbox needs servicing screen right after the blob animation.

Also after my last post I decided to really mess things up (insert stupid idea here) and loaded the dos tools from the "all in one" to see if the drive was locked. I launched hdlock, picked the 60gb, and tried locking it with the hddkey that was in my eprom.bin file it said "done" so then I figured I would try it in the xbox again. And again it loaded the needs service message.

Then I hooked it to the PC again and tried unlockx to unlock the drive, it showed the drive as locked, it asked for the password, I typed it in......and low and behold it can't unlock it. I must have screwed up the hddkey when I typed it in. Even though I checked it like 3 frickin times.

So now I can't even access the drive on the pc to wipe the fatx partition to try everything again.

So thats where things sit now. I can't figure out how to unlock the drive, or wipe it to start over. As Homer Simpson says "Help me bejeebus!!!" I think I'm screwed now and I just wrecked a perfectly good 7200 rpm 60 gb hard drive.

If anyone has any suggestions, or comments or just want to laugh and point please feel free.

cheers,

Zed

GeToChKn · « **Reply #54 on:** April 25, 2004, 03:36:00 PM »

well if you used unlockx from a floppy i think it writes the hd key that you last used to luck with to the floppy or harddrive. as for locking the new drive, you should have done some reading first. you can't take a new drive and just lock it with the same key when your using softmods. what you have to do providing you can unlock it is put it into your machine, startup windows, get liveinfo and startup that. from there you load your backed up eprom into the program, choose your harddrive and it will generate you a new key. each hard drive is locked with a specific key generated by the eeprom information and probally the hard drive serial or something so that each is unique. i gotta run, hope this helps a bit and you get it unlocked.

Chicken Scratch Boy · « **Reply #55 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:42:00 PM »

congratz on the pin, ldots!

ldots · « **Reply #56 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:06:00 AM »

ldots · « **Reply #57 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:33:00 AM »

ldots · « **Reply #58 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:46:00 AM »

@ zedhead

I agree with the other posters. I sounds like on your first try you didn't lock the HDD. That's why it wouldn't boot.

And it's a HDD unique key - not the same key as for your origianl xbox HDD.
I hope you have the latest version of xboxhdm. This would have warned you to write down the key used for locking and advised you to insert a floppy and type savelog to - yes : save the log-files. Sound like you didn't run hdlock from floppy - otherwise you would also have the used key. Should I put in even more warnings on using locking tools from CD???

Anyway - it could be that you did use the key you had from your evox backup, but that unlockx just doesn't work for your drive. This can happen. Try using the hdunlock tool instead with the same key.

@ GeToChKn
With latest version of xboxhdm you dont need to reboot to windows and use liveinfto if you included the eeprom.bin on the xboxhdm-CD. The xboxhd tool has a 'Generate HDD key' option.

GeToChKn · « **Reply #59 on:** April 26, 2004, 03:33:00 AM »

Idots: Cool, thats one less step I'll have to do in the future. One question, why is it in the 'usual places' under xbox? shouldn't it be under pc? Was going nuts trying to find it it till I used the 'site search'

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