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[billiam5]

I've had 3 1.6 xboxes in a row not be able to accept their new hard drives. I build them from scratch in xboxhdm 1.8, lock them with the key from the eeprom, and when I put them in the xbox, they frag with an error 6.

I've done older xboxes with no errors in the meantime.

Is there something with 1.6 xboxes that make them harder to upgrade? I'd appreciate some insight.

Thanks!

[Darkseeker]

just finished one with no problems...

are you using UDE 2?

[gui.do]

Well you must be doing something wrong, but i can't tell what.

I recently upgraded 2 1.6 xbox consoles with bigger HDD's.
Here is the method I used (wich worked)

needed software:
- evox on your xbox (just put it somewhere on and run it from hd explorer if you happen to have a different dashboard)
- hexworkshop
- liveinfo beta 3
- hdd driver
- bootdisk with hdlock tool on it


- Create an EVOX backup and ftp the files within /backup form the EVOX dir to your computer.
- Create a backup of the original drive with HDD Driver and hotswapping method
- Create a bootdisk with hdunlock tool on it (see supertrick downloads)
- Attach your new HDD to your pc and boot up.
- Start HexWorkshop
- select open disk
- slect your new HDD
- Press the red arrow button 3 times (you should be at the start of sector 3 now, you can see this on the titlehead of hexworkshop)
- enter BRFR in the right textfield at this point exacly
- Close hexworkshop and start HDD driver, it now detects the new drive as being an xbox harddrive
- Restore your earlier created original-HDD backup to your new drive
- Start Liveinfo Beta 3 and load the eeprom.bin from the EVOX backup
- It generates a new hdd key wich you print on your printer.
- restart your computer with the bootdisk
- When DOS finished booting enter hdlock
- select your new hdd
- enter the key generated by liveinfo beta3 (dubbelcheck for mistakes!)
- shutdown your computer and attach the new drive to your xbox
- it should boot up fine.
- format the F drive from your dashboard and there is all your new diskspace.

You can also check supertrick for thistuturial, it is the same method. Make sure to use Liveinfo !!BETA 3!! on 1.6 xbox's !!! It is the only working version for 1.6 !

This method works for sure on a 1.6 .

Greetz.

[xechoxx]

Just a quick sidenote to see if this is your problem, but the locking key for your stock HDD and your new HDD will not be the same. I had this problem for awhile. The HDDKey is generated with the eeprom.bin based on the HDD serial number I believe, so the locking key will be a bit different. If you were trying to use a locking key you generated with your old HDD, that's probably the problem.

[ProdigyXP]

I had a problem like this recently. I finally had to give up on the drive and use a different one (which worked like all the others I had done).

I took a previously used WD60GB drive and Winhex'd my stock Xbox drive to it. I then ran liveinfo with the new 60GB drive connected as prim slave (I even tried moving it around and disabled the drive in the bios, etc) and loaded my eeprom file and selected the new drive. I wrote down the key (and even copied it to the clipboard and pasted it into wordpad and printed it out after the second attempt, just to make sure I wasn't reading any characters wrong). I locked the drive successfully (unlockx) and made sure it was locked. I got error 06 on the Xbox. First time I ever saw that. I went back and did it all over again. I used several different versions of Evox (using it's backup function to capture the eeprom) and all resulted in the exact same password being generated. I tried liveinfo v2 & 3 with the same result. Finally (after 4 attempts) I grabbed a new WD40GB drive off the shelf and redid the process. Bam, worked like a charm. I then tried one last time by Winhexing the new 40GB to the 60GB drive..no joy. Very odd. What is even stranger is I believe that 60GB drive was one that I used last year on a different Xbox with success. I then upgraded that Xbox to a 120GB, so I just kept it as a spare drive.

Everything I have read tells me that I must have written down the wrong password that liveinfo generated (I know I didn't - even printed it out), my backup of my eeprom must have been incorrectly generated by Evox (if so, how did that same eeprom file work on the 40GB?).

I don't really need to get the drive working with that box (was for a friend who just wants to play emulators...40GB is fine), but I hate not knowing what the problem is with using that drive. Any ideas?

[gui.do]

Drive issue, some drive won't lock properly / are incompatible.
That might be the case with your WD 60GB drive.

There is a list on the internet (xbox-linux?)
were you can see wich drives have been succesfully installed on xbox.


Greetz.

[DaddyJ]

You must use XboxHDM v1.9 with a v1.6 xbox.

[gui.do]

Liveinfo Beta 3 works just as well for a 1.6

Greetz.

[DaddyJ]

Yep, forgot about beta3, it also now supports v1.6's