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[mase989900]

Thanks textbook for the help

[Textbook]

Ill Mitch, it takes some courage to stand up and say you did something wrong.  Plus, it makes it look like it's not my fault that your Xbox is screwed up right now!

I'll tell you how to fix it, but before I do, I think it's better that you know more about your Xbox and what you did to it.  What you did in Xboxhdm was format the C drive.  You see, the Xbox hard drive is split into many different partitions.  C is for any dash files, E is for all your music and game saves, and X, Y, and Z are all temporary cache drives which hold files for loading off the hard drive for later/quicker use.

You only formatted the C drive, meaning all of your Music and Saves should be fine (If I'm reading correctly).  The Xbox is looking to the C drive to boot from, and since there are no files in the C drive at all, it is giving you error code 13, which is a dashboard error.  But, you see, you can load Xbox games by coldbooting them.  This is because the Xbox BIOS is set to look at the DVD drive for an XBE before the hard drive.

To fix it:

1.  Download SlaYer's EvoX Autoinstaller v2.6_FINAL from the usual place.  You will have to download a torrent, and then use bittorrent to download the ISO.
2.  Download Qwix.  Use it to extract the SlaYer's ISO.
3.  You will have to make a new XboxHDM CD just like the one you made before, but with one addition.  You will copy all the files from your extracted SlaYer's retail full C drive.

/SYSTEM/ALL/C

Which should be the following:

AUDIO folder
FONTS folder
XBOXDASH folder
XODASH folder
xbox.xtf
xbox_book.xtf
xboxdash.xbe

4.  Coldboot any retail Xbox game (Halo for example) and wait for about a  minute.  Load the new Xboxhdm CD you just made into your computer.  Hotswap into the Xbox hard drive and type 1 at the main menu.
5.  This time, type xboxhd like you did before and type 2 to restore C drive on existing xbox hard drive.
6.  Then, turn off your computer after it is finished and the hard drive should work like a normal Xbox hard drive and it should boot up fine.  Then, try the entire tutorial over again and don't make the same mistake twice.

[Jenners9]

I'm curious with xboxhdm.  Say, you can't fit all the files on one disk can you use a DVD with a DVD drive?  Or can you use multiple CD's?  For example, build the iso with the bare C and E essentials on one disk then some other apps and stuff on other disks and load it seperately?

[Textbook]

Like I said previously, I'm really not the man to talk to about Xboxhdm.  I rarely use my own tutorial actually, even though I know that it works.  The only time I use Xboxhdm is to upgrade hard drives with Xboxes that I have softmodded.  I wish I knew more about it, especially to find the reason why you can get error 21.  I'm almost certain that you can use a DVD and a DVD drive.  As for the multiple CDs, I think I heard you can use multiple CDs, but I'm not sure.

[JD1]

JD

[Textbook]

The hard drive has to be connected to the primary master IDE channel.  Also, it may still be locked.  Make sure you are hotswapping at the Main Menu after a few minutes and make sure power to the drive is never lost.  Also, check your computer's BIOS.  It should boot from CD-ROM first, and then Hard Drive second.

[Jenners9]

Excellent, was able to u/g the HD with ease with a slight twist on the install.  I thought with that simple tut that all I had to do was copy all the files from C and E from the softmodded xbox put it in the xboxhdm/linux folder along with the eeprom, build the xbox hard drive from there and put it in.  well i followed everything but i ended up with an unmodded xbox with a bigger HD lol!!  So I just put the new hd back in the pc, unlocked it, applied the UXE mod again, locked it again, and tadaaa it worked hehehe..  I guess I did the tut for just upgrading the HD for an unmodded xbox.

[Textbook]

Dateke, many dashboards are known to have their .ini or .xml configuration files deleted out of the blue.  When this happens, it reverts to a standard internal configuration.  Since you already said you were messing with the .ini, I'm guessing it was just screwed up or something.  What you could do is FTP into E:/Dash and delete the old .ini and upload a new one.  The .ini is most likely what is giving you problems.

Jenners9, glad to see that you got it upgraded.  I figured if I showed you two ways (my way and the tutorial), you would eventually figure it out.

[Striider]

Well, I think I screwed the pooch.  First of all, I didn't back up my eeprom.....  IDIOT!!!!

I did every step perfectly, but when I chose #2 of the 5 steps, I saw some errors about how there was no fonts directory found, and no bert and ernie fonts to delete, and it only took about 2 mins to complete.  When I started up the xbox after this, it booted to the dashboard, and wanted to update xbox live but couldn't reach xbox live I assume because I have that port disabled on my router.  It wouldn't do anything else but try to update, so, I figured the hack didn't work and I hooked it back up and tried to softmod again, with no luck.  Then I got the genius idea to try the #1 mod on there.  It gave me a message it was able to overwrite the xboxdash.xbe or something, but it is still stuck at the live screen.  Any ideas?

Thnaks for the cool tutorial tho!

[T-Maniac]

someone needs to put this in the stickies. this is what most newbs need.  they don't want to buy a mem card, game, find a hacked box,etcetc... this is perfect.

STICKY!

[Textbook]

QUOTE

In the evox.ini

Item "Reload","c:\xboxdash.xbe" <---The path had something else that did not exist so I changed it to this and I can now switch to the old dash through the reload option.

2.  Or, you can use a file manager application (DVD2Xbox, XBMC, Avalaunch, XToolBox, Boxplorer, etc.) to launch the file c:\xboxdash.xbe.

[jory]

hey i can't get any computer to find my xbox hard drive, i tried on an emachine, and a home built computer.  On each one i loaded a game, went to the menu, unplugged the hd right b4 MS came up, and disconnected the dvd player and unplugged the hd on the red light.  Im running out of ideas, I want to get this going before i put comps and xbox back together..  anyone have any ideas on why the computers can't find the xbox hd?

thanks

[dateke]

The saga continues ....
So I got EvoX to generate a default ini file, but still no dice.  Dash runs fine, XBMC loads fine, games only crash if launch from EvoX and as soon as I hit eject, it pops back to the dash.  I guess the next option is either aquire EvoX from the usual spots and re-install or re-apply the entire mod.

Has anyone else had issues after going into the MS dash?  Other than the ini that's the only common factor between the 2 boxes and both have the exact same problem.

[kingroach]

its most likely evox problem.. turn off IGR/TSR or GAME REGION or any extra settings in evox.. may be Nkpatchers settings and evox setings are conflicting.

[GTI_SP]

Hello, i followed the tutorial and now i get an error 21. I read some topics about the error and it can be  fixed. My problem now is in the hotswap. When I plug the hard drive of the xbox into the IDE cable of my pc, the hard disk is not recognized ok, the model and manufacturer have strange characters (the hard disk is a Western Digital). The drive is unlocked and xboxhdm detects it, but xboxhdm says there is no xbox partition in the disk. If the drive is broken, i don´t know if it is, the only solution is a modchip and a new hard drive, isn't it? I don´t have copy of the eeprom.

Thanks in advance.