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[Heimdall]

There are no other options apart from the ones you have considered:
1. Hotswap
2. eeprom reader
3. Fit a chip

If you've never soldered then an Xbox isn't a good place to start. Which hotswapping tutorial are you using?

[Heimdall]

You have to hotswap before the error screen - usually just as the white Microsoft logo appears on the boot screen.

Erasing the hard drive has nothing to do with its ability to be unlocked or locked.

You can get an eeprom reader here.

[stephace]

Try this Bud!!

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item20b7bc6d04

This should sort you out the easyest!!!

[mryner4]

I've made progress! I just didn't have the video cable plugged in. I plan on using HDprepar to zero the hard drive and rebuild it with hdm. If I get the xbox working again I will be sure to make an EXTERNAL backup of my eeprom. Formatting the drive with the eeprom.bin isn't smart

[Heimdall]

QUOTE(mryner4 @ Apr 22 2013, 05:39 PM)

When I start the Xbox there is not a white Microsoft logo.

When you start your Xbox you should get the flubber, then the Green X in the middle of the screen with the word Xbox underneath it, then right at the end (before the error screen) you should see a white Microsoft logo at the bottom of the screen.

Which bits of that aren't you seeing?

[Heimdall]

If you use xboxhdm and Kingroach NDURE 3.1 properly then you'll end up with a much better softmod than your original, because it will have shadow C to prevent AID from wiping your softmod. Combined with a copy of your eeprom you should be bombproof!

[Heimdall]

Read either "Softmod with hotswap" or "Softmod with eeprom" in my signature. Which you use depends on whether you decide to hotswap again, or buy and use an eeprom reader.

The important thing with all softmods is to enable shadow C, so that incorrect use of a rescue / rebuild disc won't remove your softmod.

[mryner4]

I ran into another problem. -_____-
When I try to run option 1 on xboxhdm, this is what I get.

"Building an Xbox HD from scratch is a two step
procedure. First the partition table is built.
Then the partitions are formatted.
We will now search /dev/hda for an Xbox partition table...

No xbox-partition table found on /dev/had

Drive is not locked but locking is enabled
Don't reboot until you have build a working Xbox HDD
since rebooting will relock the drive.
Press any key to abort the operation..."

This doesn't make much sense to me because it says it will build a partition table. What could I be doing wrong?
Heimdall- do you have Skype?