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I'm am unplugging it before turning on the X-box, and as far as I know, I'm hooking it up to the computer properly.

[TommyNL]

Hi,

I'm hotswappping for the first time only i still get the same error again and again...
Who knows this problem...

When i come to the part of the tutorial wich says to run xbrowser it tryes to find the xbox hard disk wich i plugged in the right way;  primary master but it can't find the harddisk....

What am i doing wrong... Please help...

thx.

Tom.

[DaddyJ]

QUOTE(TommyNL @ Mar 12 2005, 09:22 AM)

Hi,

I'm hotswappping for the first time only i still get the same error again and again...
Who knows this problem...

When i come to the part of the tutorial wich says to run xbrowser it tryes to find the xbox hard disk wich i plugged in the right way;  primary master but it can't find the harddisk....

What am i doing wrong... Please help...

thx.

Tom.

In my experience this can be caused by two things.
The drive is in fact not detected by the system, or the drive is still locked.

attempt the hotswap again, paying more attension to the timing of the hotswap.

also make sure you hook your hd up after the pc bios detection, this seems to work better in some cases.

[kabouter]

Back to it.

You have a few options here, but we are only concerned with typing
xboxhd

This is a excellent script that Ldots has written for us, and it will bring up a nice little menu. With Several Choices. We are only concerned with Option 2 {Rebuild C Partition} ***(WARNING, this will delete everything on the C partition, Make sure you backup or C)***(This is also why I choose C only Exploits, as If you have info on E that is required, you will either need to run Option 1 and wipe the complete drive, or manually transfer these files needed in XBROWSER. See My next post.)

After it formats the C partiton, it will look on the CD for any files that were placed in the C folder before we made our ISO. It will ask you if you want to copy the files, type
yes


hI, with great respect I have red this tut, but...
at this point things went wrong.
can you please describe how this is done?
My C is formatted but then the CD spins and stops without doing any installation.
can you please inform me where to look for? and is it maybe possible to copy all nesecerry files to the Xbox with the xbrouwser?
thanks,

[kabouter]

QUOTE(kabouter @ Mar 13 2005, 02:22 PM)

Back to it.

You have a few options here, but we are only concerned with typing
xboxhd

This is a excellent script that Ldots has written for us, and it will bring up a nice little menu. With Several Choices. We are only concerned with Option 2 {Rebuild C Partition} ***(WARNING, this will delete everything on the C partition, Make sure you backup or C)***(This is also why I choose C only Exploits, as If you have info on E that is required, you will either need to run Option 1 and wipe the complete drive, or manually transfer these files needed in XBROWSER. See My next post.)

After it formats the C partiton, it will look on the CD for any files that were placed in the C folder before we made our ISO. It will ask you if you want to copy the files, type
yes
hI, with great respect I have red this tut, but...
at this point things went wrong.
can you please describe how this is done?
My C is formatted but then the CD spins and stops without doing any installation.
can you please inform me where to look for? and is it maybe possible to copy all nesecerry files to the Xbox with the xbrouwser?
thanks,

     
To add on my last question:
I get the following message after the format sequence: (and the cd starts to spin)
===========
how you can rebuild th c-drive with backup files
searching for files (error)
you will need to replace the CDrom with the one containing the C-pad E-drive files
eject:unable to eject, last error invalid argument
Insert source CD rom and push (enter)
Sarching for files (error)
cannot find system files
please report bug..
=======
any thoughts?
thanks,
kabouter

[DaddyJ]

transfer the files mnaully using xbrowser

[kabouter]

QUOTE(DaddyJ @ Mar 13 2005, 07:59 PM)

transfer the files mnaully using xbrowser

hmmm,
I think I am a little closer to the solution; I had to copy the files in linux/c
this is what I tried with the UXE Complete v0.2.x -> these where copied on my xbox but nothing happend.
So I have red all the replies to you and came up with the xboxhdm installer from ldots. (same which did not worked due to the incorrect copie fo the files)
Now I have the following question:
*what to do with the files in SMINSTALLER and intird.gz? where they go?because the description in the readme.txt below doesnt seem to work.??


(IN THIS FOLDER THERE IS ONE FILE AND ONE FOLDER (INITRD AND SMINSTALLER)

1. COPY THE INITRD FILE TO "LINUX>ISOLINUX" FOLDER. THERE IS A INITRD FILE ALREADY SO WINDOWS WILL ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO REWRITE, SAY "YES"

2. COPY THE "SMINSTALLER" FOLDER TO "LINUX" FOLDER, WHERE THERE IS ALSO OTHER FOLDERS LIEK C, E  ETC.

3. USE MAKE-ISO.WIN.BAT TO CREATE THE ISO))

[kabouter]

QUOTE(kabouter @ Mar 13 2005, 11:54 PM)

hmmm,
I think I am a little closer to the solution; I had to copy the files in linux/c
this is what I tried with the UXE Complete v0.2.x -> these where copied on my xbox but nothing happend.
So I have red all the replies to you and came up with the xboxhdm installer from ldots. (same which did not worked due to the incorrect copie fo the files)
Now I have the following question:
*what to do with the files in SMINSTALLER and intird.gz? where they go?because the description in the readme.txt below doesnt seem to work.??
(IN THIS FOLDER THERE IS ONE FILE AND ONE FOLDER (INITRD AND SMINSTALLER)

1. COPY THE INITRD FILE TO "LINUX>ISOLINUX" FOLDER. THERE IS A INITRD FILE ALREADY SO WINDOWS WILL ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO REWRITE, SAY "YES"

2. COPY THE "SMINSTALLER" FOLDER TO "LINUX" FOLDER, WHERE THERE IS ALSO OTHER FOLDERS LIEK C, E  ETC.

3. USE MAKE-ISO.WIN.BAT TO CREATE THE ISO))

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So, I am learning every day (haha)

Today I restored my c/ to its origin and started all over again
made an ISO with the files in SMINSTALLER and intird.gz
Started the thing with command : softmod
and choose option 1 at first
it gives this as result: cannot remove "/xbox/xboxdash.exe''
no such file or directory

Went over again and restored to its origin
choose option 2 with the 5 steps
took a long time,,,,, but??

again gave the result at step 3 of 5 ==cannot remove "/xbox/xboxdash.exe''
no such file or directory
kept on going an finished all the 5 steps

Tried to fire up the XBOX and THIS WORKED
SO FINALY I HAD THE SOFTMOD WORKING VIA A HOTSWAP!!!!
happyhappy.
so today I will try and access the box via ftp and have the media center in there.

Any tips?
thx

[harry slinger]

QUOTE(kabouter @ Mar 14 2005, 01:15 PM)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, I am learning every day (haha)

Today I restored my c/ to its origin and started all over again
made an ISO with the files in SMINSTALLER and intird.gz
Started the thing with command : softmod
and choose option 1 at first
it gives this as result: cannot remove "/xbox/xboxdash.exe''
no such file or directory

Went over again and restored to its origin
choose option 2 with the 5 steps
took a long time,,,,, but??

again gave the result at step 3 of 5 ==cannot remove "/xbox/xboxdash.exe''
no such file or directory
kept on going an finished all the 5 steps

Tried to fire up the XBOX and THIS WORKED
SO FINALY I HAD THE SOFTMOD WORKING VIA A HOTSWAP!!!!
happyhappy.
so today I will try and access the box via ftp and have the media center in there.

Any tips?
thx

I tried it today and it was quite simple: just copied the hole directory in the e/apps/ and could load it right away.
Something strage is still boughtering me... Thats the fact that I cannot access my C disk for any ajustments tot the system.
Anybody some tips for me how to restore this ??

[harbingerofdoom]

for those of you who are having a problem with the timing, here is the trick that worked for me & made this hot swap soooooooo much easier.

I did the hotswap blind (Xbox not hooked up to the TV)

power on computer & boot into bios. set it to exit witout saving, but dont confirm yet... it will just sit there waiting for you to hit 'Y'

power up xbox, as soon as that first flash of red hit on the LED, pull the ide cable & set the hd aside, then hit 'Y' on your computer to tell it to start rebooting. once it starts going through the POST (for those of you that dont know what that is...thats where it starts telling you how much ram you have ect...) as soon as you hit that stage, pop the IDE cable onto your xbox hdd & BAM, you have hot swapped it.

It literally took me about 10 tries the other way before I tried it this way.
for those of you who keep having the problem with it saying there is a drive but no partitions, your xbox drive was not detected. this process should help with that.

now the only problem is that I have to reburn the boot disk & try again because it cant read any of the information that I burned onto the disk

lemme know if that process helps anyone.

[harry slinger]

QUOTE(harry slinger @ Mar 15 2005, 10:15 PM)

I tried it today and it was quite simple: just copied the hole directory in the e/apps/ and could load it right away.
Something strage is still boughtering me... Thats the fact that I cannot access my C disk for any ajustments tot the system.
Anybody some tips for me how to restore this ??

Today I was confronted with an other strange thing: I could not play any games?
Tried to play it from original disk ie. splinter cell and from a dl version and copied to the harddisk. All of them hang up my Xbox?
Can you tell?
thx
harry

[harbingerofdoom]

i had originally posted this somewhere else, but in hindsight it might actually be more apropriate here.

I went to copy BWI-MA into the folder, but one of the files wont transfer, it keeps giving me an invalid arguement error 22 when that file goes to copy. I took a look at the file and when I am booted into xboxhdm the file name is different and contains a ? in it.
when I take that same disk to any one of 4 win boxes they report the correct file name & size.

I have reburned the ISO a few times and on different media (DVD-r DVD+RW CDR & CDRW) and on different computers & the same thing is happening from all of them.

Is there some info that someone can give me on this problem?

[harbingerofdoom]

We can ignore the previous post that part is fixed.

I was getting error 12 once I turned the xbox back on after transfering the files.

now, without anything in the DVD drive, I can get in & see the installer save that I pushed to the hdd, but when I put a disk in, it goes to the xbox splash screen, gives me the white MS under the x and then I get an error that says "your xbox requires service, please call the customer care number..." with no error code numbers or anything else.

I am on day 3 of trying to get this done & im really starting to get stressed could someone please help me out here?

[harbingerofdoom]

we can ignore that last one too...
the exploit that I had loaded was corrupted. deleted that & it came back up.

[_elysium]

Hey,
Well i'm a total xbox mod noob, but i followed daddyj's nice litle tutorial and everything worked flawlessly..

I took pics of the entire process, so if anyone is interested I can post them here..

Thanks Daddyj for such a clear and helpful tutorial, it made my xbox-modding painless, free and easy!

Let me know if you guys want to see photos of the soft-modding!