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Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 03, 2003, 02:08:00 PM

pressing eject in the right moment when the MS logo appears. tried this 1000+ times.
c) letting the xbox reboot for a couple hours
but without success.
i do NOT know the hdd key from the xbox's hard disk. i hotswapped the hard drive and connected it to a computer in my LAN. windows recognized the drive on my 1st try (seagate 9,x gb). i made a backup of the drive using the latest version of winhex.  problem is, there are no original fonts backuped on the drive.  what can i do to bring my xbox back to life?
1. is it possible to alter the 2 font files using winhex (although the file sizes differ), i.e. to restore the original fonts from the hacked ones ? if so, how do i do this with winhex??
2. will it work when i put another xbox hdd taken from another xbox in the clock looping box? or won't it even boot because of the different hdd keys?

please help me. i'm getting really frustrated on this...
thanks in advance.

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: Kolk1604 on December 03, 2003, 02:21:00 PM

Is this your first loop? Have you been able to boot PBL and Evox before? I have two solutions for you.

1. Let your XBOX boot untill it loads the dash. (This does work. I've done it lots of times)

2. Reinstall PBL.

1 or the other should work.

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 03, 2003, 02:24:00 PM

yes, it is my first loop. i used bert & ernie fonts and left the xbox some hours without power. i was able to boot this xbox before and successfully load PBL and evox. it worked perfectly.
how can i reinstall PBL when i have the clock loop problem?

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: bbjk on December 03, 2003, 04:33:00 PM

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Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 03, 2003, 04:35:00 PM

yodanut: i do have a backup of the original font files. but they are on another pc in my lan, not on the xbox. i only have access to the xbox hdd via winhex. how can i copy the original font files to my xbox harddrive using winhex? or is there a program that lets you "mount" the xbox harddrive with fatx-filesystem on windows, so that i can easily copy the files??

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 03, 2003, 05:32:00 PM

bbjk:
1) while the xbox is in the clock loop, it won't boot anything. putting xbmp in the drive won't help, it will not boot it because of the loop.
2) unfortunately i do not have the backup fonts on the xbox's hard drive

yodanut:
thanks for the tip. i will try HDDriver tomorrow after university. i guess this could solve my problem (if it works :-)

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: bbjk on December 03, 2003, 05:46:00 PM

and for winhex, it is not use to sent a font file over, it is use to change your bert and ernie font extension to something like .old and change the original xbox and xbox book font to it's original extension which is .xtf, so use winhex and do a search for the text bert and ernie font or just do a search for .xtf s...

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: Kolk1604 on December 03, 2003, 06:26:00 PM

QUOTE (pcween @ Dec 4 2003, 02:35 AM)

or is there a program that lets you "mount" the xbox harddrive with fatx-filesystem on windows, so that i can easily copy the files??

You could always use HDD Driver

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 05, 2003, 03:18:00 AM

i tried hdd driver on a pc with windows 2000. according to the readme, this program only works with windows 2000 and xp. when i launch driver.exe, it fails to run because of a missing dll (msvcrtd.dll). i don't have this dll (neither on this windows 2000 pc, nor on my other windows xp pc). anyone got that to work and can help me out?

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: Mordenkainen on December 05, 2003, 03:33:00 AM

It needs the Visual C runtimes, search the web for them.

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 05, 2003, 03:46:00 AM

morden: actually, i already tried that. i downloaded VC6RedistSetup.exe (contains runtime files for visual c++ SP5). but there is only a msvcrt.dll, not a msvcrtD.dll (notice the D in the end).

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 05, 2003, 04:16:00 AM

kami: thanks a lot. i just found that out myself using MS's dll help database. i'm installing msvc6 right now to get them from the /vc98/debug directory.

edit: ms visual studio 6 copies the debug dlls in /windows/system32 during install. they are not in /vc98/debug as stated in the dll help database (or did i miss something)

is hdd driver still being actively developed? it would be far more convenient to have a release version of the program instead a debug one...

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 05, 2003, 05:12:00 AM

ok, i have hdd driver working now. i had the "invalid file size errors" first. i solved the problem by changing 5 "fatx"-strings on the xbox hdd to "....".. now hdd driver detects the xbox hdd and loads up without an error. the problem is, the program window is empty. i cannot browse the xbox hdd. do i have to use the backup/restore-functions of hdd driver first in order to be able to browse the fatx filesystem of my xbox?

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: Kolk1604 on December 05, 2003, 09:51:00 AM

After you install PBL and stuff, you need to change the 5 offsets back to FATX. Then Restore cache 3 and user like before. Your E Drive and other stuff should be back.

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 05, 2003, 10:50:00 AM

kolk1604: how should i do that? the problem is, hdd driver isn't working properly. the program window is empty. what do i have to do for my xbox directory structure to show up?

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: kuamuamu on December 05, 2003, 09:24:00 PM

i hope that all this helps, please post your results..

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: Kolk1604 on December 05, 2003, 09:35:00 PM

QUOTE (pcween @ Dec 5 2003, 08:50 PM)

kolk1604: how should i do that? the problem is, hdd driver isn't working properly. the program window is empty. what do i have to do for my xbox directory structure to show up?

1. Open HDD Driver and make a backup. (Should be able to no matter what.)
2. Open a Hex edititng Program (I prefer WinHex) and open your XBOX HD Backup.
3. Go to postion--->find Offset and search for the 5 offsets and change FATX to "...."(excluding Quotes) then save
4. Open HDD Driver and Restore your Drive. Restore Cache and then User. (Should be restoring twice.)
5. You should now have access to your XBOX HD (Your C, anyway) Install the exploit.
6. When done, open Hex Editing Program and change those 5 offsets back to FATX, save and then restore like you did before. Cache 3(Restore) user(restore).

Your XBOX should now be usable.

Title: Big Clock Loop Problem!
Post by: pcween on December 06, 2003, 02:15:00 AM

. i can really recommend xlinux over the buggy hdd driver. xlinux is really easy to use and doesn't have any annoying bugs.