I seem to have a problem with hotswapping:
I've hotswapped twice now (first time for inital softmod, second time to try and fix an UnleashX install - which didn't work).
For some reason, I seem completely unable to hotswap any more. I know the hard drive is working, as it loads game saves etc fine, but I must've tried 10-15 times to hotswap, without success.
I can't get into the MS Dash (though, like I said, I can play games fine), so I can't use the rip-song-play-song unlock method (which I used for the first hotswap). I can't quite remember what I tried for the second hotswap, maybe Error 12.
Anyway, so far I have tried:
Error 12 with no power to DVD.
Error 12 with no IDE to DVD.
Error 12 with no IDE or power to DVD.
Hot swapping on Red led (how accurate does this have to be? is it just a general timing, or does is have to be exactly on the switch to red?)
Hot swapping before white MS text on startup
What seems to happen is that whenever I hotswap to the pc, the pc suddenly refuses to recognise the cd drive (which is in the IDE slave position, the Xbox HD is in master). This seems to happen whether it's before I choose to boot off the cd (at which point, it either boots into Windows, or tells me no NTLDR - or whatever - found on the disk), at the Xboxhdm prompt (where hitting 1 just causes the pc to freeze) or once it's booted into Linux (when I try to run xbrowser, it tell me to put in the Linux disc)
Is this a hotswap problem, a problem with my disk, a problem with my pc, or a problem with my Xbox hard drive?
Thanks!