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Post by: roar on June 30, 2003, 11:52:00 AM
You can't get back into your xbox's hd with your pc. You need a new boot disk, until then you're up shit's creek. Doesn't sound like your xbox is crashing though, if you are getting the green x and the m$ logo it sounds like your bios isn't loading or your chip is disabled. Did you write a new bios to your chip and has it booted since?
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Post by: BenJeremy on June 30, 2003, 12:00:00 PM
Boot with the drive tray open (I think) for safe mode.
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Post by: Pobbe on June 30, 2003, 12:42:00 PM
No, you can´t put the harddrive in a pc (not that I know of), you´re only option is to make a evox boot-cd and launch it. Should be some topic around here about what cd-rw brands works with the xbox.
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Post by: NFCTinken on June 30, 2003, 07:47:00 PM
Yeah, just make an EvoX boot CDRW, boot from it and setup FTP again. Once connection is made between PC and Xbox just copy over your original backup of your C drive. That is if you kept a clean copy.  wink.gif
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Post by: Pizza Pizz on July 01, 2003, 12:38:00 AM
If all else fails then this sure fire method should work but you would another modded and fully working xbox and say Slayer 2.1

take lids off both xbox's

bottom xbox is a pukka working modded one - hopefully one that will read cdr or cdrw like philips or best of all samsung drive. Connect all leads to this and a pad - getting it all ready and unhook the ide cable from the h/d cradle hook too. Don't switch it on just yet but ya gonna use this one on ya telly......

Now before you power up anything, position the duff xbox on top at an angle so that the ide cable from the first pukka xbox will reach it - you may need to support the xbox a bit with some video cases/books etc.....

Good almost ready - connect a power lead & AV cable too......

OK here goes - first pukka xbox switch on and boot slayer 2.1 disc as if you was gonna install.....

now boot the moody xbox and wait a while - hopefully it may go red/green crash

give it a good bit of time to finish it's attempt at booting though.....

now both xbox's should of finished doing what they wanted to do and just be sitting there -maybe the moody is flashing red/green error etc.....

NOW CAREFULLY - very carefully unplug the ide leads and plug the pukka ide lead into the duff xbox

you now should be able to control the duff xbox's drive via the pukka one hooked up to ya telly

go to slayer menu and select install RETAIL - most important as this will re-do all but ya F drive - this will leave ya F drive untouched coz it ain't there on retail xbox - trust me

turn off both xboxes - replugg the leads back in and should now work

this has sorted a number of dash problems for me - error 16, hanging at boot screen, time n date on a bad ms dash etc....
even when peeps have fucked up their xbox dash and removed the mod - still sorted and got me to a working dashboard and then I just re-installed mod/tsop flash

OK the install dash option maybe a bit drastic - perhaps if you had a backup of the old evox.ini you could copy it over with boxexplorer or even shove in a LIVE update disc or something - heck you may be able to ftp but I ain't 100% sure coz I just took the easy "re-do retail" option that is 4 mins on slayer 2.1

Of course you need the other modded xbox but it does bloomin' work coz the moody drive is unlocked and then hot-swap it and use the other xbox to sort out the problem

lmk how ya get on - but I reckon this should work for you like it has for me about 3 times now
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Post by: Morglum on July 01, 2003, 01:59:00 AM
QUOTE (ray-ray @ Jul 1 2003, 10:47 AM)
thanks guys, i will try to find a cdrw brand. damn! i absolutely dont understand the last reply. is it a joke or somethin?

I doubt its a joke, judging by his use of "pukka" he's either a southern fairy from kent or somewhere else down south, or he's a jamie oliver fan  laugh.gif
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Post by: Pizza Pizz on July 01, 2003, 03:20:00 AM
Well fuck you lot too - kidding

but that is the last time I bother to try n help any northern bastids out biggrin.gif

if you can't get ya head round it all then ask someone who can read the Queens English a little better - or rather Saaaf Lundun

you was kinda close with Kent

but it will work - sod ya northerners
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Post by: Biteable on July 01, 2003, 05:51:00 AM
Oi....... I'm from Kent and have never used to word pukka in my life

Being from Kent we are either accused of being Londoners or being Pikeys

I am not a Londoner
And I f*@king hate Pikeys

You F@*king Northern Monkey  biggrin.gif  biggrin.gif
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Post by: Pizza Pizz on July 01, 2003, 08:06:00 AM
The great North / South divide - lmao

biteable - thanks for the good info etc

getting back to the post in question - the hot swap really works

using a good quote for anyone else taking the piss:

DIE HARD

"If ya not part of the solution you are part of the f**king problem"

and no I ain't Jamie Oliver or any fan of his either

Sod ya - I'm off to sainsburys on me scooter - lol
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Post by: Morglum on July 01, 2003, 10:34:00 AM
LOL pikey, an old GF of mine was from hildenborough (kent), she kept calling her brother a pikey, then something like a chav. LOL bloody southern fairies tongue.gif


And theres nothing wrong with being a northerner, northern monkey and proud  laugh.gif and i think im the only one here aswell  sad.gif
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Post by: Biteable on July 01, 2003, 11:20:00 AM
Chavvy is another name for a pikey haha  biggrin.gif
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Post by: JakeOz on July 01, 2003, 11:27:00 AM
QUOTE
DIE HARD

"If ya not part of the solution you are part of the f**king problem and no I ain't Jamie Oliver or any fan of his either, Sod ya - I'm off to sainsburys on me scooter - lol"


Imagine if Bruce had said that in die hard... it would've been a whole 'nother film.
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Post by: mrRobinson on July 01, 2003, 03:36:00 PM
is anyone speaking english on this thread.  I mean like american english.
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Post by: Morglum on July 01, 2003, 03:51:00 PM
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Post by: mrRobinson on July 01, 2003, 04:09:00 PM
The worst time i had in my life was when the company i worked for flew me to london (actually it was hursley) to do shit at IBM... anyway it was horrible.  I couldn't understand people, the food sucked( it was also during that mad cow time), and the hotel had what they called a "thatched" roof which i thought was something nice but turned out to be straw... (imagine that!)  This was about 2 years ago and it was the first time I had to use a modem for years...  

anyway, ever since that trip a part of me wishes that island sinks into the sea...  

oh and to top it off ... they had a "heated" towel rack... well that fuckin thing was at least 200 degrees and burnt my hand ( i have a scar) and this was on day 2 of 10.  for the rest of the trip anything metal in the room i had to touch (like door knob etc) i instinctively pulled my hand away really fast at first before touching it again.
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Post by: mrRobinson on July 01, 2003, 04:12:00 PM
oh and people kept telling me to take some damn train to france but i only found out it was a train after i left otherwise i would have done it.  I forget what it was called but i'm sure one of you people know...


the funnel?? whatever it was it sounded weird and i didn't want to chance it.
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Post by: JakeOz on July 01, 2003, 04:17:00 PM
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Post by: SirHexx on July 04, 2003, 10:28:00 PM
QUOTE (JakeOz @ Jul 1 2003, 08:17 PM)
oh and that's tunnel, not funnel. don't you have tunnels in america? it's like a big hole that connects england to france, and trains go through it.  biggrin.gif

Actually, i thought that it was the "Chunnel".anyway.....I LOVE LONDON..... i stayed there for the best 2 weeks of my life .... you  people sure know how to drink.... i dont think i was sobber a single day i was there.... its the only place i know of where you can see a well dressed, intelligent, and very polite bussiness man with a breifcase get off of work, walk out of his building, and straight into the pub across the street....... fast forward two hours later and that same guy is with his shirt off, wearing a tie around his head and pissin in his briefcase singing some weird drinking song.... LONDON RULES!
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Post by: Morglum on July 04, 2003, 10:57:00 PM
laugh.gif ( You gotta love the north/south devide  biggrin.gif ).

BTW i love the pic in your sig, that rules  beerchug.gif
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Post by: SirHexx on July 05, 2003, 08:23:00 PM
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cheers mates  beerchug.gif