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[cyanides]

Thanks for the reply thr4773r.  I get it now.  I figured I was missing something.

[cherryfool]

I followed this tutorial pretty much to the letter except I only used the extreme2 version of Xplorer360 - obviously this meant I didn't have to hex edit the beta 6 exe. Btw, it's an excellent turtorial!

I purchased my WD drive from ebuyer in the UK. Specifically it's a WD1200BEVS-00VAT0. I can confirm this works for almost everything.

BUT, it doesn't work with existing Rock Band game saves. Basically, after installing the new drive, Rock Band refuses to load my profile's saves giving the error "Loading has faled for an unknown reason. Selected storage device is no longer available". It then allows you to play the game without any previously saved information (musicians, bands, etc.). I've tried loading the game saves "from another device", selecting the harddrive as source, but this results in the same message  .

I've not found any workarounds for this but there are others with the same problem, e.g. here and here.

For me this makes this mod unusable (the wife would murder me if I lost her rockband saves!   ) which is really gutting because it's otherwise great!

[barzi]

Is this the right kind of harddisk that I need:

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD1200BEVS

Because I see nothing in the topic start about the Blue part.. But this is the only WD1200BEVS you can get here in The Netherlands..
So is this the right one?

And can I also use a 60GB Harddisk?

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD600BEVS

Because MS is using a 60GB harddisk now in the premium consoles.

And is the undo file the same as dumping the hddss.bin from your 20GB HDD? So a backup..?

This post has been edited by barzi: Oct 27 2008, 10:43 AM

[SynGamer]

I keep getting Disk Boot Failure, please insert...

Any help?  I've set my USB flash drive (all i have, no Floppy) up with i believe Windows98SE boot files...

EDIT: are there any cheaper SATA controllers that are guaranteed to work with HDDHackr?  I have the ICH9 Intel chipset and it works fine for me for everything else i use it for, so i'd like to keep costs down for this project.

This post has been edited by SynGamer: Nov 6 2008, 01:47 AM

[dmac271]

ive done all the pre hard drive steps and i just want to confirm that before you format the 120gb hard drive you insert your OWN xbox serial number?

QUOTE(SynGamer @ Nov 5 2008, 06:20 PM)

I keep getting Disk Boot Failure, please insert...

Any help?  I've set my USB flash drive (all i have, no Floppy) up with i believe Windows98SE boot files...

EDIT: are there any cheaper SATA controllers that are guaranteed to work with HDDHackr?  I have the ICH9 Intel chipset and it works fine for me for everything else i use it for, so i'd like to keep costs down for this project.

the only reason that would be happening is if your flash drive wasnt configured properly for boot.
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
try that website for help

[SynGamer]

QUOTE(dmac271 @ Nov 5 2008, 09:37 PM)

ive done all the pre hard drive steps and i just want to confirm that before you format the 120gb hard drive you insert your OWN xbox serial number?
the only reason that would be happening is if your flash drive wasnt configured properly for boot.
http://www.weethet.n...romusbstick.php
try that website for help

My problem is that i don't have a floppy drive on my computer so i am unable to get the boot sector files...if someone could send those to me, that would be great, but until then, it looks like i'm out of luck.

[dmac271]

QUOTE(SynGamer @ Nov 5 2008, 07:57 PM)

My problem is that i don't have a floppy drive on my computer so i am unable to get the boot sector files...if someone could send those to me, that would be great, but until then, it looks like i'm out of luck.

sorry i sent the wrong link i wasnt paying attention.

http://www.thepcspy....usb_flash_drive

use that one and the files to download are in the comments

[SynGamer]

QUOTE(dmac271 @ Nov 5 2008, 10:20 PM)

sorry i sent the wrong link i wasnt paying attention.

http://www.thepcspy....usb_flash_drive

use that one and the files to download are in the comments

My problem now is do i boot from USB-FFD (or was it FDD?) or USB-HDD?

[dmac271]

QUOTE(SynGamer @ Nov 5 2008, 09:40 PM)

My problem now is do i boot from USB-FFD (or was it FDD?) or USB-HDD?

should just boot to usb drive try both and see if either gets you to dos mode

[SynGamer]

QUOTE(dmac271 @ Nov 6 2008, 12:23 AM)

should just boot to usb drive try both and see if either gets you to dos mode

I have a ICH9 chipset so i'm not sure if i can even get there or if i do boot into DoS if i'll have further problems but i'm going to try.

[dmac271]

never hurts to try

[SynGamer]

I'm still getting the Disk Boot Failure  My options when booting are;

Floppy
LS120
Hard Drive
CDROM
ZIP
USB-FFS
USB-ZIP
USB-CDROM
USB-HDD
Legacy LAN

Nothing works

EDIT: just to clarify, i have my Hard Drive and Optical disconnected.I'm using a Kingston thumb drive (1GB) and i followed the directions in the link you sent me exactly.  I'm going into the BIOS and trying to boot from there buy nothing...perhaps it's a setting in the BIOS?

[guyver0]

i have an intel d945plrn motherboard that im connecting my bevs with, however after booting into hddhackr -f [using an hp boot flash disk] it searches in enhanced mode first and then legacy mode and then says enter the nr of the drive to be used, numbers between 1-4 im stuck here  

[dmac271]

QUOTE(guyver0 @ Nov 6 2008, 01:25 PM)

i have an intel d945plrn motherboard that im connecting my bevs with, however after booting into hddhackr -f [using an hp boot flash disk] it searches in enhanced mode first and then legacy mode and then says enter the nr of the drive to be used, numbers between 1-4 im stuck here  

you need to hex edit hddhackr with hex editor so it can manually find your device

[sweapon]

can it be any digital wetern 120 gb hard disk or does it have to be a laptop(slim) harddrive?