Guide To Installing a New HDD with Software Hacks(Taken from
Sottilde - thanks!!)
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Part 1 - Collecting Keys and Preparation - Part 1 1. Using 007 hack or font/audio hack, use Evolution-X's 'backup' feature. FTP into the xbox and copy the C:backup folder over to somewhere on your computer.
1a. Run LiveInfo and make sure the new HD you are going to use for the xbox is lockable - Locking: NOT LOCKED is lockable, Locking: NOT SUPPORTED is NOT lockable. Your only chance with that drive is to flash your TSOP or get a modchip.
2. Open up your xbox case, unplug the original HD, and put it somewhere safe.
3. Download atapwd and hddunlock from xbins.
4. Grab norton ghost and create a boot floppy - No need for LPT, USB, CD-R support, etc.
5. Unzip and put atapwd and hddunlock in their own folders - e.x. a:atapwd a:hddunlock
6. Grab hdprepar and zero the first 4096 sectors on the drive to be put into the xbox. BE VERY CAREFUL! You might have your OS's drive and the new drive be the same size. Usually they vary by a few megabytes, though. Use that as a reference. If you zero your OS's drive, you may be able to save yourself with PartitionMagic (search google - You'll have to either buy it or crack it).
7. Once that finishes (should be relatively fast, 5 seconds or so) run liveinfo. Click 'load eeprom' and direct it to the backup folder you downloaded from the xbox. Point it to eeprom.bin . Make sure the HD you want to put in the xbox is selected.
8. Write down the key that shows up in the bottom half of the screen - should be 40 characters. Make sure that in the top half, the bottom-most field is NOT all 0's. If it is, try loading the EEPROM again. Also, open and write down/print hddkey.txt .
VERY IMPORTANT!!! Part 2 - Unlocking Drives - Part 2 9. Turn off your computer. Pop out your OS's HD. Put the xbox HD on the Primary IDE channel - no other devices hooked up. Put the HD you are going to put in the xbox on the secondary channel, also with no slave. Make sure both HDs are either set to CS or Master.
10. Set to boot from floppy in your BIOS, and pop in the floppy we prepared earlier. It should load for a minute or so.
As soon as Ghost loads WRITE DOWN the license. I have NO idea why but it asks for this later. Some odd security feature.
QUIT ghost.
11. Type:
cd atapwd
atapwd.exe
Check to make sure both drives are listed. You should see SELFXV written at the top. The replacement drive should only have S checked, with the rest -'s. The xbox drive should have E and L checked, as well.
12. Type:
cd..
cd hddunl~1
hdunlock.exe
Select the xbox's HD. Type in the password you printed from hddkey.txt . Don't bother putting in the colons, and you don't need to type the 0's at the end.
13. Type:
cd..
cd atapwd
atapwd.exe
Make sure that the L now has a - for the xbox HD.
14. Type:
cd..
cd hddunl~1
hddisabl.exe
Select the xbox HD, and type in the password from hddkey.txt again, in the same format (no colons, no 0's at the end).
15. Type:
cd..
cd atapwd
atapwd.exe
Make sure that both the E and the L now have -'s for the xbox HD.
If they do, great! Your xbox HD is now unlocked! (note - hdunlock.exe unlocks the HD, hddisabl prevents it from relocking itself).
Part 3 - Cloning Your Xbox HD - Part 3 16. Type:
cd..
cd ghost
ghostpe.exe /ir
This will start ghost in Raw Mode. After it loads up (you did write down that license, right? If not, here's your chance to write it down again). Now, move the mouse to the bottom-left of the screen (to pop up the menu) and select disk -> to disk.
17. Select the source and destination drives - Source is xbox HD, destination is new HD. Allow it to finish copying (should be 10 minutes max). Once it finishes, quit ghost.
Part 4 - Locking Drives - Part 4 18. Type:
cd..
cd hddunl~1
hdlock.exe
Now, you need to lock BOTH drives. Use the password from hddkey.txt to lock the xbox HD (that is, if you want to keep it as a backup, which is VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED). Use the password you got from LiveInfo to lock the replacement HD.
19. Type:
cd..
cd atapwd
atapwd.exe
Check both drives in atapwd. They should be locked now.
Congrats! Your HD is now prepared - The easy, no hdd-driver, no linux way!
20. Pop the replacement HD into the xbox case
. MAKE SURE the jumper is set to
CS (cable select).
Close up the xbox case (don't screw it in just yet) and plug in the xbox. Hook it up and turn it on. If you did it right, it'll boot up and everything will be fine. If you get an error 6, or related errors, put the replacement HD and xbox HD back in your computer, unlock/disable them both (xbox hd uses hddkey.txt password, replacement HD uses LiveInfo password). Repeat steps 16-20.
Good luck with it! Mods: Possible sticky?

Sottilde
P.S. Let me know how it goes.
-- Edited to make it easier to read.
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