Topic: How To Softmod Through Xboxhdm (Read 823 times)

Jenners9 · « **Reply #75 on:** November 20, 2005, 12:03:00 AM »

Hey textbook, I understand what you want me to do for step 2. I was able to extract slayers and found the retail/C folder.. However it only had 2 files in it evox.ini and evoxdash.xbe Is that correct for when I make the xboxhdm iso?

mase989900 · « **Reply #76 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:26:00 PM »

Thanks textbook and kingroach. I finally got it to work. In the meantime I am trying to do exactly like Jenners is doing and i had the same question what is a slayer's disc and where can I get it from?

mase989900 · « **Reply #77 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:28:00 PM »

Also I am tring to save my Xbox games to my hardrive if possible could you point me in the direction of a good tutorial. Thanks

mase989900 · « **Reply #78 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:35:00 PM »

Can the xboxHDm be used to back up the xbox hdd? I a m lookinh throught the readme's and havn't found anythin yet.

mase989900 · « **Reply #79 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:50:00 PM »

Next is back up both of the hard drives, combine the hardrives.I would like to put my game saves, and music sound tracks from one xbox to the other, and put copies of the games on the hd to play from. Another thing is that I need it done before Thanksgiving, I appreciate the help and the time you guys have spent in helping me.

EternalX · « **Reply #80 on:** November 20, 2005, 07:49:00 PM »

I did this on friday and it worked great! Very easy to do following the instructions. The EvoX dashboard runs fine, and i even added dvd2xbox so I can copy some of my games to the harddrive. I did have a few questions though as my friend also has a softmodded xbox.

He has the avalache dash, with a buncha nifty things. I ran in to two problems with my xbox. I tried to play a burned game, and it wouldnt load. It would load up the logos, start loading the game, then stop and say the disc is dirty or damaged. We tried 3 different games and it didnt work. It worked on his just fine! He had no problems playing backed up copies of his games on his burned discs.

He also had a disc that had 2 games on it. On his xbox, he put the disc in, it came up to a menu letting you select which game he wants to play. When i tried this in my xbox, it would not load the disc.

So, whats wrong here? they are both softmodded, yet acting differently. I hope its something somewhere in the configuration or files i can add so I can change this to act like his. Can anyone help?

Blehbeb · « **Reply #81 on:** November 20, 2005, 11:16:00 PM »

Tried doing this on my 1.0 xbox and at first glance it looked like it was going to work. Got all the way through it first try.... reconnected everything.... then up popped error 21. Figured no biggy I would just try again. Only problem is this, my xbox will no longer load any games at all. It always comes up with an error 21. As was suggested earlier in this thread that even with error 21 the hdrive still unlocks i hotswapped after the error came up. Except this time XBoxHDM doesnt even detect the xbox hdrive anymore. I also read somewhere that the hdrive is unlocked with errors 11 and 12. So i unplugged my dvdrom to get an error 11 then hotswapped. This time XBoxHDM found the hdrive but didnt recognise any partitions on the drive. Im assuming this error came up because the drive wasnt really unlocked. But anyways too sum it up: I cant boot up any games to unlock the hdrive, my error 21 results in XBoxHDM not being able to find the drive, and error 11 lets XBoxHDM find the hdrive but doesnt seem to unlock it. Any help would be appreciated.

Jenners9 · « **Reply #82 on:** November 21, 2005, 01:15:00 AM »

This is wierd, I wonder why people are getting these error 21's. I have a 1.0 box and just softmodded mine and works perfectly. Did you make sure you followed the steps perfectly? Actually just out of curiousity what computer did you use to do this on? How did you hook up the drive, primary master alone? with CD drive on second IDE cable?? I wonder if it has to do with the BIOS or xboxhdm recognizing the partitions.

Textbook · « **Reply #83 on:** November 21, 2005, 01:41:00 AM »

For anybody wanting to upgrade their hard drives after softmodding, remember this:

Because of the Marriage Theory, you have to change some things if you play on Xbox LIVE.

1. If you currently have Xbox LIVE, and want to upgrade your hard drive. Too bad, the only way to do that would be to buy a new, unbanned EEPROM from Zodiak in the B/S/T forum and a new, never been on Xbox LIVE lockable hard drive. You will have to use Config Magic to update to the new EEPROM and then use that eeprom when you upgrade the hard drive.

2. If you don't have Xbox LIVE, but plan on getting it. Do not connect to LIVE until you are 100% certain that it has the hard drive that you want in it. The reason being is, the first time you sign on to LIVE, it will match your EEPROM to your hard drive and they will be "married" to each other. If the marriage is broken, then your EEPROM and HD will both be banned. This means you have to keep that hard drive in there.

3. If you don't have Xbox LIVE, and don't plan on getting it. Don't worry about it, just keep using XBC or KAI or whatever it is you use.

4. If you had Xbox LIVE, but don't currently have it. It depends on how long ago was the last time you connected to LIVE. It is believed that they started "marrying EEPROMs to hard drives around July 2004. If you haven't connected since before that time, you should be safe if you upgrade your hard drive. If you connected at any moment after July 2004, then you need a new, unbanned EEPROM.

For those who still want to upgrade to a larger hard drive, please check out the following tutorial:

http://www.how2xbox.com/harddrive.htm

@EternalX, your question would probably be better answered in the backup forum, as it is most likely a problem to do with that and not the softmod itself. I can give you a few quick tips, but if you don't find the answer, ask it in that forum and somebody will figure it out.

1. Set your clock in the MS dashboard.
2. Make sure all HD video settings are disabled.
3. Clear your cache. (Delete the contents of E:/Cache, X:/, Y:/, and Z:/)
4. Disable TSR and set IGR to No in EvoX's settings.
5. Might be your DVD drive as well.

@Blehbeb, don't really know what to tell you. It's that mysterious error 21 (Please, somebody tell me why there's a rare chance of getting this??) Usually, you can just hotswap back in and it will be fine. The only time I got error code 21, I could still boot games, so I didn't have an unlocking problem.

Jenners9 · « **Reply #84 on:** November 21, 2005, 11:03:00 AM »

Anyway, thanks again, I already have everything backed up and getting ready to make the iso.

Jenners9 · « **Reply #85 on:** November 21, 2005, 11:05:00 AM »

QUOTE(Blehbeb @ Nov 21 2005, 04:52 AM)

Followed the steps perfectly. I did this on a homebuilt computer... its an Asus A7V8X mobo running an AMD 2200 XP. The drive was hooked up to the primary master cable with nothing hooked as slave. The drive I used to boot XBoxHDM from is on on the second ide ribbon as master. What I dont get is why the drive hotswapped and worked fine in XBoxHDM the first time but now I get nodda.

mase989900 · « **Reply #86 on:** November 21, 2005, 06:43:00 PM »

I having another problem. My iso file is 931mb while the cd is 700mb what should I do?

Textbook · « **Reply #87 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:50:00 AM »

Well, since you can FTP, I'm guessing you already backed up all of your C and E folders to your computer in the Xboxhdm folder. Cut the contents of the E:/UDATA and E:/TDATA folders and put them in your documents or on your desktop. The grunt of all that data is in the E drive. Then, make a new ISO with the C files needed, and the following E folders:

Cache
Apps
backups
Dash
Games
**and any files in here

Just cut the UDATA and TDATA and it should free up enough space. Then, after you upgrade your hard drive and it's softmodded and working, just FTP and transfer those folders back to the E drive.

Ill Mitch · « **Reply #88 on:** November 22, 2005, 05:33:00 AM »

Right - I've discovered it is possible to unlock your HD using the "Disconnect the DVD - Error Code 12" Option.

After having got passed that, I attempted just to run "softmod" and install a Dash.

Various errors came up regarding missing files and folders, and it didn't work. After trying to do it again on the offchance, i can no longer load "softmod", but can run xboxhd.

I tired various options, and discovered my box HD has no parition table, and it recommended using Option 1 to build a new drive. Option 2 wouldn't work.

So i'm trying option 1 - it's taking a long time though, which I presumed was normal, but would be grateful if anyone could advise me on how long this takes?

And, of course, that i'm doing the right thing, bearing in mind i have no Eeprom backup, as i never got the softmod on in the first place.

Ill Mitch · « **Reply #89 on:** November 22, 2005, 06:37:00 AM »

Rebuilding the partition table seems to have helped a touch, but as i have no back up of my C:/E: Drives i have nothing there.

I try typing "softmod" and it seems to work partially:

Stage 1:
"X" In
"X" Out (X is same number)
(Seems Fine)
Stage 2, 3, or 4, i'm getting problems with writing to directories, presumably because they're not there.

I have no backup of my xbox files - is there a way i can attain some and rebuild my frive correctly? I am thinking i have fucked or wiped Eeprom (what excactly is Eeprom?) and will need a backup to fix my drives properly. I don't suppose i can somehow download the files that would normally be on my drive from xbinx or somewhere?

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