The 80 wire cable doesn’t supply any power, the reason why you need the cable with more wires is so that the data lines don’t experience any crosstalk, even then you still have only 40 wires that are used for data, the other 40 are just conductors. These conductors where put in the cables to increase the potential speed of the ATA bus, as the 40 wire cables couldnt go higher than 33MBps becuase of the aformentioned crosstalk issues.
I understand what you're saying and I expected that as well as I have seen other videos where the Xbox appears to take forever to boot. Mine boots immediately just like it did before I upgraded the HD and games load just as quickly as they did before.
This Video along with part 1 was what I needed to watch. Bought a system with a dead hard drive (07 code) and now I can save it and play ALL my old games again. Thank you sir.
Just in case anyone comes across this, You can plug the middle connector on the IDE cable into the board and route the cable a bit smoother. The longer part of the cable would go up and over the dvd drive, and the smaller portion would go under. Doing it this way you don't need to fold the cable nearly as much.
ide cable does not provide power to devices, just data 40 vs 80 wire cables is just for speed, there is still only 40 wires conncected on the 80 pin cable, but every other wire is grounded, to avoid "crosstalk" between adjacent data wires
Also his IDE cable wouldn't have been designed 'for a floppy drive', as floppy drives don't use IDE cables. Might have meant designed for CD/DVD though.
Yes youngin' (we're probably the same age) you needed one of those 80-wire cables to run in UDMA mode on your computer. It was like magic once system drivers were installed on my AMD K62 350Mhz computer.... :P
You are super close to starting a fire!!! Please put some electrical tape on the back of the MOLEX connector of your IDE to SATA board!! The pins sticking out of the back are almost touching the grounded casing of your HDD, which would cause a nice amount of damage to your system!
This is my story. Bear with me as this story is long. I bought my OG Xbox v1.4 around 2002 from Best Buy. I had fun with it until I discovered it had a 10 Seagate hard drive (which I don't own anymore) and it can also be modded. I waited & researched continuously until I discovered it can also be softmodded. So around 2005-2006, I softmodded my Xbox using SID through the Agent Under Fire mod. I even upgraded the hard drive to a Seagate 40 GB hard drive. It had UnleashX as a dashboard & I had a bunch of games, emulators, apps, videos, music & other stuff. It was never TSOP flashed. As life moved along, I've put the Xbox away. Now, when I tried to use my Xbox, come to find out the clock capacitor was leaking, Trace A was corroded & 3 capacitors was bulging. So I replaced the 3 capacitors, removed the clock capacitor & fixed the trace. I also bridged the points for TSOP, so it can be flashed. I started up my Xbox & it gave me a 07 error code (HDD timeout). I checked the 40 wire IDE cable & the 40 GB hard drive & the hard drive was clicking, telling me that it was dead (lost everything in it🤬). So I took out the hard drive & boot the Xbox up & still have a 07 error code (without the hard drive). I downloaded the Hexen 2017 & Bios Checker images & burned them to each their own DVD-R using Imgburn on the slowest speed. I put the Bios Checker CD in first, & still the Xbox gives me the 07 error, so I took the CD out & put in Hexen CD, & still get a 07 error. What am I doing wrong? Did I screw up somewhere? Does the Bios Checker need a hard drive? All I want to do is upgrade my Xbox with a 1 TB SATA hard drive, following along with your part 2 of this upgrade video. Please, can you help me out with this headache of a dilemma? I really don't want to buy another Xbox unless I really necessarily have to (I don't know if I'll even get another v1.4 Xbox). Thank you for taking the time to read this long story & for trying to help me with this difficult quest.
You softmodded your Xbox but lost the hard drive. If you have a EEPROM backup, you can use that to build a new hard drive locked for it. If not, you need to pull the EEPROM from your motherboard and build a new locked hard drive for it. If it was running custom BIOS it would be less of a headache, but that's sadly not the case. Slot1Gamer has a great video showing how to pull the EEPROM, good luck!
16KB clusters for up to a 250GB partition 32KB clusters for a 250GB-500GB partition 64KB clusters for a 500GB-1TB partition I remember back in the day we split partitions. With the correct cluster, due to risk of corruption. Lol seeing that single F partition has me nervous. Probably because I can't see the cluster size, my inner nerd is concerned. :P I've thought about putting another system together with a 2tb hard drive. Years ago I had a 1.4 motherboard in a original crystal xbox housing with a 1tb hard drive. Replaced the stock exhaust fan with a Arctic F8-80mm, had to file down some plastic of course. Lit up with bitfenix strips, modded one of the controls ports to usb. Considered having them controlled by the fan, so as speed increased. The brightness varied, only for some years later. The motherboard died on me, ended up replacing it with I believe a 1.2 motherboard. Tsop flashed it in the most awkward way possible, stripped down an IDE cable. Used the wire to bridge the connections, no magnifier. Just my eyes and a spot lamp, had to get the wires so fine to fit. Was unbearable but worth it, always wanted to do an original slim xbox mod. Curious to see if I could get a PATA IDE to SATA adapter. To fit directly to the motherboard, use a long sata cable. And resolve the power issue to the HDD.
the only thing i think you should have done that i didnt see was insulate the molex pins on the back through of that sata adapter they looked awefully close to the metal of the HDD. Great vid though im gonna do this to my xbox meow thanks for uploading
I have the same SATA to IDE Adapter in my Xbox which now has a 500GB SATA Drive in it. 1 Piece of advice I would give you is to insulate the exposed pins on the back of the Adapter. I used some Insulation Tape (Electrical Tape) and wrapped it over them pins several times. As you will see the pins on the other side of the Molex Connector and IDE connector are exposed.
Interesting video. I bought some of these adapters a couple of years ago and always got problems after a while (few days) of using my Xbox. At first I thought that the SATA adapter was damaged and then I thought it was the HDD. After seeing this video, I'm convinced that my stock 40 wire IDE cable might be the culprit. Now I'm thinking of converting my HALO Edition green Xbox into a TSOP and add a spare 1TB laptop HDD. BTW, when leaving the console overnight FTPing your games, I suggest you open your XBOX case and point a fan on it to ventilate it. I read somewhere that doing long FTP sessions can cause a lot of heat and there were certain parts of the machine that didn't like that. I don't remember exactly what it was but I'm sure it was something related to the onboard LAN controller overheating or something.
Very awesome tutorial man, keep it up! Although I have a strange issue and I'm betting it's the HDD adapter, let me explain: I successfully TSOP my 1.0 Xbox and flashed the same evox bios like you did, works like a charm. But here's the thing, when I installed a WD Green 1tb that I had lying around with the adapter, no signal came through on the screen, so I switched back to my previous hard drive and it worked with no issues whatsoever. So I tried to connect the adapter without the hard drive and still no signal, so here's what I did in a sort of crazy way: I disconnected ONLY the data cable from the adapter and turn the Xbox on, signal came through with the splash screen and everything, turned it off and turned it back on and while the bios splash screen was still running I connected the data cable and weirdly enough the bios just froze and the sound just started stuttering, when I disconnected the cable again the bios continued it's splash screen and sound as well, then it just gave me the no hard drive error screen. So yeah, probably the adapter was faulty. 🤔
Do you need install a mod chip to upgrade the hdd? I am new to this, just finish soft modding my Xbox but hard drive pretty small, i don't have any experience soldering. Can you install a bigger hdd without doing any chip mod? Thank you.
My issues Is I want to use 2 SATA adapters but no matter what combo I use it refuses to boot. It would be so nice if I had at least 1 working OG DVD drive.
I have 2 questions to ask: 1.Is worthing to put in the original Xbox a ssd? 2.I can copy movies from dvd into my xbox using a application or something like that?
my new 18in ide 80wire came in today , pop it in put my new 1tb hdd in and use hexin dvd ..am and running ..SUPER HAPPY .. for those buying the ide cable ..as long as you get a 80pin ide cable no more than 18inch you will be fine...if buying on ebay buy from someone in your country dont by from china and have to wait 1month for it to ship on a turtles back lol
According to 80-pin IDE cable specification, ppl need to be wary of its length. I got one with 75 cm length. It does not work. But that may be caused by the HDD or the converter. The main problem with the 80-ind IDE cables is to actually find one that has the plugs correctly arranged for the Xbox: Mobo plug close to master plug. Plus, noone seems to sell the 80-pin connectors (here in Germany), so I cannot make one myself. They do sell the 80-pin wires though O_o EDIT: I will try to use the 40cm IDE cables that MrMario linked to (Ebay) in reverse. Did anyone try that? I read that it should work.
The only difference between an 80 wire and a 40 wire IDE cable is that a 40 wire only has the signal wires and the required grounds. An 80 wire cable has one ground wire for every signal wire on the cable which allows it to transfer data a little faster and it gives it a little more integrity. I'd say the stock cable would have worked just fine at the sacrifice of a little bit of speed.
The 40 wire cable did not work, as shown in part 1 of this video. I was thinking it would have been a bit slow as well but nope, it would simply error out each time. It isn't an issue of files on the hard drive either since this system has a custom BIOS, it will nuke any blank drive loaded in.
I've modded many Xboxes and it worked, but then again I've never used a SATA to IDE adapter lol. I'd really like to see how you could do a HDD access indicator light mod on that cable if possible.
I disagree. I used the 40 pin cable that came with the Xbox and it worked perfectly, including no lag. See my comment above regarding my experience upgrading to a 1 TB drive.
I have a tsop modded xbox. 2 tb with 700+ xbox games. Multiple emulators with hundreds of games per. Ps1 emulator that works but i do not use it. I met a guy who has 2tb x2 drives. He has everything anyone could want plus more and still has free space.
I bought one of these and they sent me a much shorter ribbon. I had to end up folding it up pretty strangely and mounting the drive upside down. I noticed that certain DVD drives taking too much power are the reason a regular ribbon will not work. It will detect the dvd drive first and than discard the drive altogether. Which makes sense, but I thought I'd elaborate for a better understanding.
@@MrMario2011 The one in the video is much longer than the one I got. Dude, this one is crazy short. I almost went with a Phillips drive which is a great model other than +/- compatibility but ended up going with an 8050L. I remember way back when- reflashing a PC drive with 8050L software and it was the best drive I ever had other than some eject detection issues. I've done tons of these back in the day with Xecuter 2.3b lite and 2.6CEs but this was my first TSOP and what seemed ridiculous all those years ago is soo simple today. Of course it was more expensive back then and the risks were more significant without an eeprom reader! The Unicron Ponyprog method was hard to get a decent diagram of too, and so I created my own based on guessing mostly and posted my tutorials. I don't know how this led into a life story but to have 1.5gb SATA is definitely a step up from all those old'n days. Next step: remove ram from a dead board and upgrade to 128 since I actually have the tools. I've always wanted to do that. (Hey! "The Faculty" reference!). Keep on killing it, man! Every time I have mostly an idea how to go about things I can always reference your videos for a full breakdown of what to look out for. Good stuff, man!
You know what would really be cool ? I’m not sure if anyone has done it or if it can be done . But taking all internals from an Xbox one s or Xbox one x and put inside the original Xbox casing . To me it would just be awesome . I love the look of the original Xbox . All others have been pretty plain Jane . The original has character . Big , but it has much more character than the others . Just my opinion . Would love to see if it’s possible to do though .
i genuinely want to drop an 8 TB HDD ( I Know its slower than SSD its just for storage reasons) in my Xbox. i wonder if this method works with such a massive amount of storage.
Glad the new IDE cable worked! I just saw your part 1 the other day and decided to upgrade my softmodded Xbox I've had for years. Unfortunately it turned out to be a 1.6 when software told me it was 1.5, explaining why PBL and debug tools weren't working. No TSOP means I can't put a big SATA drive in it, and my two 80GB IDE drives I had lying around didn't support drive locking. My boss gave me a sealed (!!!) 40GB IDE drive and it did work. Not huge, but finally enough for more than one game. Hopefully I can pick up an Aladdin soon so I can use debug tools for RTH. I did have issues with Chimp, following various guides I got my drive formatted and locked but it was only showing 3GB on F:/. I dug through Chimp and found it has an option to properly format F:/. Trying to launch HeXen also brought disappointment too; my drive has the issue where it only ejects with a disc in the drive, but even after manually inserting HeXen nothing loads. Looks like my laser has gone bad. Bummer.
Spencer Fowler you can also use an ide dvd drive on a softmodded xbox no need for an original xbox disc drive l tried and it worked, of course my lg dvd drive cant read original xbox discs
Spencer Fowler you better use the hexen disc some apps are meant to be read from disc only... other apps can be used from disc or from the internal hdd
Spencer Fowler you better use the hexen disc some apps are meant to be read from disc only... other apps can be used from disc or from the internal hdd
Great video! I recently did the same and upgraded my softmoded Xbox to a WD 1TB HD SATA drive using what looks to be the same adapter that you are using. I just wanted to point out that I also purchased the 80 wire cable and got so fed up with trying to get it to fold in the Xbox that I gave up and reinstalled the original cable. I wasn't sure what the result would be, but it booted up no problem! As a matter of fact, I feel like it boots even more quickly than it did before. That's just my two cents. :)
If it wasnt for you with these great video majority would be lost! I was in the scene back in the day when the original xbox was released. Went by Xboxit.00. Did many TSOP flashes etc. Been out of it for many years now, just had my Niece request some old xbox games and I grabbed another original also. Just curios, where can we grab the Hexen 2017 iso? Will it run on a soft modded system? Seems new to me, I do know of the slayers disk which was quite handy! love your videos MrMario!
Hey Mario I followed everything step by step, ow getting error codes, unplugged and replugged everything, switching from master to slave give me different error codes, also happens that my old drive stopped working, dang it everything was fine before, just wanted more space
So I am upgrading to a 1tb HDD from stock on a TSOPd xbox. I slapped the new HDD in and hooked it up with the 80wire cable and the Startech adapter (both tested working properly in another build), and when I pop in the my Hexen 2019 disc It doesn't say linux and throws an error code after a few seconds (9 on master, 8 on other jumper settings). Is it possible that Hexen 2019 can't be used as an installer? EDIT: OKAY so listen to this. I tried every boot method with the startech adapter jumper settings even without the jumper and got error code 9 everytime aside from error code 7 on slave jumper. I decided to try the much cheaper generic IDE-SATA adapter and it booted up first try!!! That is insane to me considering the Startech adapter being much better quality and also faster by 20 seconds when booting to dash on a softmodded xbox vs the generic one. Which makes me think that since my HDD is 7200rpm, is it possible it wasn't getting up to speed in time for the Hexen disc to recognize it?
Hello friends , I have an original xbox 1.6 softmoded and I just cloned the hard drive to a 120gb one , the thing is that with the new hard drive installed after the boot up animation the screen remains black ; even more weird is the fact that as soon as i press the dvd drive open buttom the unleashx dashboard will boot just fine .
Don't know if I misunderstood, but it seems Hexen formats the hdd twice, once when it detects new HDD and afterwards on Hexen submenus are loaded for NTSC/PAL selection?! Also does it install twice XBOX dashboard?
I would love to try all of this unfortunately my Xbox is plagued with the Thomson DVD drive. Its near impossible to find the Samsung or the Phillips drives anymore. Could you do a video that shows how to take any IDE DVD rom drive and make it Original Xbox compatible.
so I'm newer to this, and I've softmodded mine but not aware of all the different methods. in another video he used the hot swap method to upgrade the HD, but on this one he used the disc to load everything on the upgraded HD. Is that because of the options for upgrading on a softmodded xbox versus a hard modded with custom bios? I wanna make sure I understand the options and methods for each.
I never made backups for my x3 miss that customized xbox boot up and seeing Xecuter Rox My Box logo I gotta figure out how to add a new HDD with no current drive. :'(
Hi Mario, I just bought a OG Xbox on FB Market Place. I plan to TSOP one day, but would first like to get the softmod going and remove the clock capacitor. I wonder at what point I can install a new HDD. If I do it in this order would it be fine. Softmod with Rocky5 > Remove clock capacitor > TSOP > New HDD. I'm not sure if New HDD comes before TSOP. Which route would you go? Thanks in advance.
I've been told you can use it all, but partitions higher than 1 TB could cause data corruption. Although I've only heard about that, never seen any confirmed reports. 2 TB is more than enough for me, but it seems going over that will probably still be fine. I've seen people confirm having 3 TB drives in their consoles for years with no issues.
@@MrMario2011 I had a spare 3TB or else I would have used a 2TB. But working in IT, I knew it would work, since you will leave the remaining un-partitionned. Thanks for the video!
If it's not reading successfully on boot when blank I doubt it would work fine on a formatted drive? I upgrade all my SATA drive consoles to 80-pin wires, not much of a reason to revert back once I've installed the new cable.
@@MrMario2011 i had an issue where chimp wouldnt read the sata converter on a 40wire, i wish my 80 wire would reach over to the hdd bay though =\ i would def keep it in there instead
You might just need to bend it properly, it's a tight squeeze but I got it. I don't ever clone my drives as it seems to be a bit of a hassle. I softmod, then hardmod, then drop in a new drive and nuke it.
If you use a 2.5" drive, you can get away with an 18" cable. The smaller drive, allows you to position it, so as the 18" cable can be routed with little stress on it. One of my Xbox systems is set up this way. Drive easily sits in the caddy for the 3.5" drive, and the cable isn't stressed at all.
Have you ever used a Startech IDE/SATA adaptor? I tried it and it doesn't work for me, while a generic Chinese IDE/SATA adaptor does. With Startech it goes like this: the startup sequence stutters, the screen goes black and nothing else happens (I've waited multiple minutes each time). With generic Chinese it goes like this: the startup sequence plays properly, it takes a longer while for the Microsoft logo to appear and the Xbox launches correctly. It's odd because the Startech adaptor is supposed to be better.
I have an OLD TSOP mod done years ago on my Xbox 1.0 and I just put a 250GB SSD in my machine. So far with the new drive the UnleashX works great but I am curious if there is any benefit. Few questions: - Do I need to reflash the TSOP again? - Would there be any benefit to reflashing the TSOP? - I have a 1MB ST that is controlled by a switch to choose between EvoX and stock. How do I know which BIOS I am flashing? Thanks!
I am not a pro, but not a noob, either. So take my answers with a grain of salt: - If your xbox shows all HDD space with your current BIOS and you have no intention to use the stock BIOS in the future, no need to flash again. - I guess most ppl will not notice a difference. - You flash the BIOS you are currently booting with. So if you need to boot with your modchip BIOS to run the HeXen disc, you would flash the BIOS on your chip, which is not recommended, AFAIK.
I'm having problems running certain games like Gunvalkyrie in Unleash X. It works fine on the original disc but doesn't really work when copied over ftp.
hi, possibly dumb question, but if I have a softmodded console that I already was able to upgrade the HDD, would doing a TSOP flash mess with that at all? Wouldn't want to have to back up all the stuff I already put on it and re-transfer. thanks!
Mr Mario i hae a question for you. Is it possible on a original Xbox DVD drive to be connected to USB? I was just curious. I know not the best thing to do. But still wonder if it is possible?
Did almost this exact process to two systems about a month ago and it works great. the only annoying thing is the in game reset on the 8+ bios. It tries to read the disc drive resets the system tries again and THEN loads from the HDD, anybody know a fix or workaround?
I have an older tsop'ed MB and a 160gb hdd with Avalaunch installed. Can I use Hexan 2017 to install EvoX and XBMC? Also how can I transfer the installed games on the 160hdd to a 500gb hdd? I would do a fresh install on the 500gb hdd.
Hello Mr. Mario love your stuff I have a question I have a modded Xbox modded about 10 years ago it won’t boot up can the hard drive be bad can you give me any suggestions what to do yes
I have a problem. Can you help. I put a 2tb hard drive in the og xbox. When i put a disc in the console to copy to the hard drive it wont read it. However if i leave the disc in and turn it off then back on the xbox will play the disc automatically without going to the dashboard. I put the stock hdd and ide cable back in and the dvd drive works perfect. Any ideas. Im guessing its eithdr the 80 pin ide cable or the 2tb hdd or sata adapter,
hello mr.mario just a quick question i have a 1.6 is soft modded and i keep getting error 07 trying to update the HDD is brand new and IDE is 80 wire and works with old hdd. i havent intall chip like aladin or others tho do i need to? thanks for all your help...
Hey Mr Mario, I was watching this video yesterday and I thought if there are some way of not hacking the XBOX, but rather replace the hard disk either with another PATA or a new SATA, but just copying the original OS. I don't want to hack it to add ISOs, just a way to update the hard disk. Have you done that or had you seen that? Just a thought.
I dont have a chipped xbox will i be able to run the recovery disk? failing that will making an image of my old harddrive and burning it to my replacement harddrive then fixing the partition sizes with partition wizard work?
So MrMario2011 I Moded my Xbox with Rocky(like you did in the other video) then up grade the hard drive like you did here but im getting a error "Your Xbox Requires Service" No code in the corner like on yours and its frag.( Original Hard drive doing it too) Any Ideas what it could be?
I am not new to the modding scene but i have been away for a while. one of myXboxes crapped out and im trying to get it going again. it was working fine and as i was copying over some files. then it just stopped. when i booted, my G drive was gone. and now, it just wont boot at all.. i just got an 80 wire - 40 pin cable and still using the same adapter i always had. even tried others. after changing the cable to an 80 wire, it booted but stuck on error 16.. - _-
So for sure that this cable will work? I tried a Startech branded cable and it still ended up being too short for me no matter what I did. I've really been wanting to try out my Xbox for a while to make sure the upgrade even worked but can't because of this issue.
This worked great for my xbox. When I tried on a friends it seems like the NIC adapter is broken in the xbox. Is there any way for me to copy my xbox drive and put in his? Maybe change my hdd key with rocky tools. change his hard drive key to the same with rocky tools. then clone my drive and leave the cloned drive unlocked. Then Act like I will clone his drive through chimp, but instead put my cloned unlocked drive into his xbox, then use his xbox to lock the drive.... would this work? this is assuming I can even get chimp on his xbox with no ftp access.
The 80 wire cable doesn’t supply any power, the reason why you need the cable with more wires is so that the data lines don’t experience any crosstalk, even then you still have only 40 wires that are used for data, the other 40 are just conductors. These conductors where put in the cables to increase the potential speed of the ATA bus, as the 40 wire cables couldnt go higher than 33MBps becuase of the aformentioned crosstalk issues.
The GeForce thanks. I was basically going to say the same thing. The extra 40 wires are acting as a shield ground to eliminate crosstalk
I installed a 1TB drive using the 40 wire cable and I'm not having any issues.
the only issue you will have is the decreased bus bandwidth from 66MBps to 33MBps. which may increase loading times by a bit.
read & write times will be slower though as 40 way cable will only support 33mbps
I understand what you're saying and I expected that as well as I have seen other videos where the Xbox appears to take forever to boot. Mine boots immediately just like it did before I upgraded the HD and games load just as quickly as they did before.
This Video along with part 1 was what I needed to watch. Bought a system with a dead hard drive (07 code) and now I can save it and play ALL my old games again. Thank you sir.
Glad it helped!
Just in case anyone comes across this, You can plug the middle connector on the IDE cable into the board and route the cable a bit smoother. The longer part of the cable would go up and over the dvd drive, and the smaller portion would go under. Doing it this way you don't need to fold the cable nearly as much.
Thanks man
appreciate you boss. this cable is pretty much the opposite of the original so there's almost no way to fold it properly to fit.
I wish someone could manufacture modern IDE cables specifically for the OG Xbox so we wouldn't have to squish them like this.
ide cable does not provide power to devices, just data
40 vs 80 wire cables is just for speed, there is still only 40 wires conncected on the 80 pin cable, but every other wire is grounded, to avoid "crosstalk" between adjacent data wires
Also his IDE cable wouldn't have been designed 'for a floppy drive', as floppy drives don't use IDE cables. Might have meant designed for CD/DVD though.
Yes youngin' (we're probably the same age) you needed one of those 80-wire cables to run in UDMA mode on your computer. It was like magic once system drivers were installed on my AMD K62 350Mhz computer.... :P
I always wanted that K6_3 mobile for my old rig. Oh well, then I "upgraded" to SPARC :/
You are super close to starting a fire!!! Please put some electrical tape on the back of the MOLEX connector of your IDE to SATA board!! The pins sticking out of the back are almost touching the grounded casing of your HDD, which would cause a nice amount of damage to your system!
Drew Conley I do the same thing on my adapters.
@@LumenateTV thats really cool. I wish i had access to a 3d printer :(
@@down2half7 google maker space in your area some of them have 3-d printers for use or know a guy you could ask to print for a couple bucks.
So that electrical tape will make my console and my power supply to be safe?
So would you just put the tape directly on the MOLEX pins or would you put the tape on the SATA Drive itself to prevent any issues?
I still use my DVD drive for game and old 8gb HDD, after 10 year, still works fine.
You still use it to play games from the discs and have no problems reading games? cool
Lucky ass
how do you play games over 4GB? I've looked into multiple options and upgrading HD seems easiest, but I do have a DVDL disc drive on my pc.
@@squidwardtentacles2736 you buy them.
Awesome video dood! I just got the PATA cable and sata adapter so cant wait to get started on this! Also LOL at the Koralik cameo.
"Figure it out!"
This is my story. Bear with me as this story is long. I bought my OG Xbox v1.4 around 2002 from Best Buy. I had fun with it until I discovered it had a 10 Seagate hard drive (which I don't own anymore) and it can also be modded. I waited & researched continuously until I discovered it can also be softmodded. So around 2005-2006, I softmodded my Xbox using SID through the Agent Under Fire mod. I even upgraded the hard drive to a Seagate 40 GB hard drive. It had UnleashX as a dashboard & I had a bunch of games, emulators, apps, videos, music & other stuff. It was never TSOP flashed. As life moved along, I've put the Xbox away. Now, when I tried to use my Xbox, come to find out the clock capacitor was leaking, Trace A was corroded & 3 capacitors was bulging. So I replaced the 3 capacitors, removed the clock capacitor & fixed the trace. I also bridged the points for TSOP, so it can be flashed. I started up my Xbox & it gave me a 07 error code (HDD timeout). I checked the 40 wire IDE cable & the 40 GB hard drive & the hard drive was clicking, telling me that it was dead (lost everything in it🤬). So I took out the hard drive & boot the Xbox up & still have a 07 error code (without the hard drive). I downloaded the Hexen 2017 & Bios Checker images & burned them to each their own DVD-R using Imgburn on the slowest speed. I put the Bios Checker CD in first, & still the Xbox gives me the 07 error, so I took the CD out & put in Hexen CD, & still get a 07 error. What am I doing wrong? Did I screw up somewhere? Does the Bios Checker need a hard drive? All I want to do is upgrade my Xbox with a 1 TB SATA hard drive, following along with your part 2 of this upgrade video. Please, can you help me out with this headache of a dilemma? I really don't want to buy another Xbox unless I really necessarily have to (I don't know if I'll even get another v1.4 Xbox). Thank you for taking the time to read this long story & for trying to help me with this difficult quest.
You softmodded your Xbox but lost the hard drive. If you have a EEPROM backup, you can use that to build a new hard drive locked for it. If not, you need to pull the EEPROM from your motherboard and build a new locked hard drive for it. If it was running custom BIOS it would be less of a headache, but that's sadly not the case.
Slot1Gamer has a great video showing how to pull the EEPROM, good luck!
You should make Lily your official co host she clearly loves hanging out with you when you work.
16KB clusters for up to a 250GB partition
32KB clusters for a 250GB-500GB partition
64KB clusters for a 500GB-1TB partition
I remember back in the day we split partitions.
With the correct cluster, due to risk of corruption.
Lol seeing that single F partition has me nervous.
Probably because I can't see the cluster size, my inner nerd is concerned. :P
I've thought about putting another system together with a 2tb hard drive.
Years ago I had a 1.4 motherboard in a original crystal xbox housing with a 1tb hard drive.
Replaced the stock exhaust fan with a Arctic F8-80mm, had to file down some plastic of course.
Lit up with bitfenix strips, modded one of the controls ports to usb.
Considered having them controlled by the fan, so as speed increased.
The brightness varied, only for some years later.
The motherboard died on me, ended up replacing it with I believe a 1.2 motherboard.
Tsop flashed it in the most awkward way possible, stripped down an IDE cable.
Used the wire to bridge the connections, no magnifier.
Just my eyes and a spot lamp, had to get the wires so fine to fit.
Was unbearable but worth it, always wanted to do an original slim xbox mod.
Curious to see if I could get a PATA IDE to SATA adapter.
To fit directly to the motherboard, use a long sata cable.
And resolve the power issue to the HDD.
the only thing i think you should have done that i didnt see was insulate the molex pins on the back through of that sata adapter they looked awefully close to the metal of the HDD. Great vid though im gonna do this to my xbox meow thanks for uploading
I have the same SATA to IDE Adapter in my Xbox which now has a 500GB SATA Drive in it. 1 Piece of advice I would give you is to insulate the exposed pins on the back of the Adapter. I used some Insulation Tape (Electrical Tape) and wrapped it over them pins several times. As you will see the pins on the other side of the Molex Connector and IDE connector are exposed.
I have a place where I can pick up ide to sata adapter that are close by me and are readily to available. So no need to go through eBay for those.
I've done a HDD swap using CHIMP. You don't really need a modchip for most XBOX original mod.
Might have to do this to my old original. Thanks for making and also cringing at the HDD adapter so close to the metal top plate of that drive.
Interesting video. I bought some of these adapters a couple of years ago and always got problems after a while (few days) of using my Xbox. At first I thought that the SATA adapter was damaged and then I thought it was the HDD. After seeing this video, I'm convinced that my stock 40 wire IDE cable might be the culprit. Now I'm thinking of converting my HALO Edition green Xbox into a TSOP and add a spare 1TB laptop HDD.
BTW, when leaving the console overnight FTPing your games, I suggest you open your XBOX case and point a fan on it to ventilate it. I read somewhere that doing long FTP sessions can cause a lot of heat and there were certain parts of the machine that didn't like that. I don't remember exactly what it was but I'm sure it was something related to the onboard LAN controller overheating or something.
2:49 He didnt listen....S A V A G E!!!!
Upgrade mines with a 2tb works flawlessly. Good video. 👍🏼
Good to hear!
which hdd did u go with?
the IDE to SATA gives me flashbacks of Druaga1
Very awesome tutorial man, keep it up!
Although I have a strange issue and I'm betting it's the HDD adapter, let me explain:
I successfully TSOP my 1.0 Xbox and flashed the same evox bios like you did, works like a charm.
But here's the thing, when I installed a WD Green 1tb that I had lying around with the adapter, no signal came through on the screen, so I switched back to my previous hard drive and it worked with no issues whatsoever. So I tried to connect the adapter without the hard drive and still no signal, so here's what I did in a sort of crazy way: I disconnected ONLY the data cable from the adapter and turn the Xbox on, signal came through with the splash screen and everything, turned it off and turned it back on and while the bios splash screen was still running I connected the data cable and weirdly enough the bios just froze and the sound just started stuttering, when I disconnected the cable again the bios continued it's splash screen and sound as well, then it just gave me the no hard drive error screen. So yeah, probably the adapter was faulty. 🤔
good stuff
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Noctua 60mm fan with plastic attachment.
Hey dj Mario can you do a video about 2tb hdd upgrade on softmodded xbox because it's so much more dificult than hardmodded ones
24:25 ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'm focusing. Thanks for bringing me back to my senses!
This was great. Enjoy your way of teaching. Have a great weekend
I had no idea people could upgrade original Xbox’s, this is very interesting to me.
VintageStealth Seriously? Xbox modding was popular even when the Xbox was current. It's a beast of a console and worth upgrading.
redslate32 I’ve just never seen anyone go this gung-ho on modding one, and I find it very interesting.
BTW...totally BUYING the walabot thing. About to move and we need a stud-finder and this is AWESOME!
Electric Shock!!! haha Nice job, i have been wanting to do this! I think i have that exact IDE/SATA adapter
I just have a softmod on mine, and i put a 160 GB IDE hdd
Do you need install a mod chip to upgrade the hdd? I am new to this, just finish soft modding my Xbox but hard drive pretty small, i don't have any experience soldering. Can you install a bigger hdd without doing any chip mod? Thank you.
My issues Is I want to use 2 SATA adapters but no matter what combo I use it refuses to boot. It would be so nice if I had at least 1 working OG DVD drive.
I have 2 questions to ask:
1.Is worthing to put in the original Xbox a ssd?
2.I can copy movies from dvd into my xbox using a application or something like that?
Can i put hecan on a DVD+R?? i have those but bot DVD-R
Thanks Mario, doing this tonight when I get home from work.
Good luck!
my new 18in ide 80wire came in today , pop it in put my new 1tb hdd in and use hexin dvd ..am and running ..SUPER HAPPY ..
for those buying the ide cable ..as long as you get a 80pin ide cable no more than 18inch you will be fine...if buying on ebay buy from someone in your country dont by from china and have to wait 1month for it to ship on a turtles back lol
According to 80-pin IDE cable specification, ppl need to be wary of its length. I got one with 75 cm length. It does not work. But that may be caused by the HDD or the converter. The main problem with the 80-ind IDE cables is to actually find one that has the plugs correctly arranged for the Xbox: Mobo plug close to master plug. Plus, noone seems to sell the 80-pin connectors (here in Germany), so I cannot make one myself. They do sell the 80-pin wires though O_o
EDIT: I will try to use the 40cm IDE cables that MrMario linked to (Ebay) in reverse. Did anyone try that? I read that it should work.
The only difference between an 80 wire and a 40 wire IDE cable is that a 40 wire only has the signal wires and the required grounds. An 80 wire cable has one ground wire for every signal wire on the cable which allows it to transfer data a little faster and it gives it a little more integrity. I'd say the stock cable would have worked just fine at the sacrifice of a little bit of speed.
The 40 wire cable did not work, as shown in part 1 of this video. I was thinking it would have been a bit slow as well but nope, it would simply error out each time. It isn't an issue of files on the hard drive either since this system has a custom BIOS, it will nuke any blank drive loaded in.
I've modded many Xboxes and it worked, but then again I've never used a SATA to IDE adapter lol. I'd really like to see how you could do a HDD access indicator light mod on that cable if possible.
Using a SATAtoIDE board requires a 80pin IDE Cable, otherwise, it wont work.
I disagree. I used the 40 pin cable that came with the Xbox and it worked perfectly, including no lag. See my comment above regarding my experience upgrading to a 1 TB drive.
I have a tsop modded xbox.
2 tb with 700+ xbox games. Multiple emulators with hundreds of games per. Ps1 emulator that works but i do not use it. I met a guy who has 2tb x2 drives. He has everything anyone could want plus more and still has free space.
Hmm, when im in the hdd partitioner screen, there is no controller input...cant select Anything
Today where I can buy the IDE cable that you mention in the video since in Amazon they no longer have in stock, thank you very much.
I bought one of these and they sent me a much shorter ribbon. I had to end up folding it up pretty strangely and mounting the drive upside down. I noticed that certain DVD drives taking too much power are the reason a regular ribbon will not work. It will detect the dvd drive first and than discard the drive altogether. Which makes sense, but I thought I'd elaborate for a better understanding.
The IDE cables are shorter, it's all in how you bend them up.
@@MrMario2011 The one in the video is much longer than the one I got. Dude, this one is crazy short. I almost went with a Phillips drive which is a great model other than +/- compatibility but ended up going with an 8050L. I remember way back when- reflashing a PC drive with 8050L software and it was the best drive I ever had other than some eject detection issues.
I've done tons of these back in the day with Xecuter 2.3b lite and 2.6CEs but this was my first TSOP and what seemed ridiculous all those years ago is soo simple today. Of course it was more expensive back then and the risks were more significant without an eeprom reader!
The Unicron Ponyprog method was hard to get a decent diagram of too, and so I created my own based on guessing mostly and posted my tutorials. I don't know how this led into a life story but to have 1.5gb SATA is definitely a step up from all those old'n days.
Next step: remove ram from a dead board and upgrade to 128 since I actually have the tools. I've always wanted to do that. (Hey! "The Faculty" reference!). Keep on killing it, man! Every time I have mostly an idea how to go about things I can always reference your videos for a full breakdown of what to look out for. Good stuff, man!
Just ordered a few of the ide cables cheers.
You know what would really be cool ? I’m not sure if anyone has done it or if it can be done . But taking all internals from an Xbox one s or Xbox one x and put inside the original Xbox casing . To me it would just be awesome . I love the look of the original Xbox . All others have been pretty plain Jane . The original has character . Big , but it has much more character than the others . Just my opinion . Would love to see if it’s possible to do though .
i genuinely want to drop an 8 TB HDD ( I Know its slower than SSD its just for storage reasons) in my Xbox. i wonder if this method works with such a massive amount of storage.
Glad the new IDE cable worked! I just saw your part 1 the other day and decided to upgrade my softmodded Xbox I've had for years. Unfortunately it turned out to be a 1.6 when software told me it was 1.5, explaining why PBL and debug tools weren't working. No TSOP means I can't put a big SATA drive in it, and my two 80GB IDE drives I had lying around didn't support drive locking. My boss gave me a sealed (!!!) 40GB IDE drive and it did work. Not huge, but finally enough for more than one game. Hopefully I can pick up an Aladdin soon so I can use debug tools for RTH.
I did have issues with Chimp, following various guides I got my drive formatted and locked but it was only showing 3GB on F:/. I dug through Chimp and found it has an option to properly format F:/. Trying to launch HeXen also brought disappointment too; my drive has the issue where it only ejects with a disc in the drive, but even after manually inserting HeXen nothing loads. Looks like my laser has gone bad. Bummer.
I have an Aladdin install tutorial coming out for 1.6 consoles, look out for that 👀
Spencer Fowler you can also use an ide dvd drive on a softmodded xbox no need for an original xbox disc drive l tried and it worked, of course my lg dvd drive cant read original xbox discs
Ricardo Hualpa I had the same thought. If I extracted the contents of the HexeN ISO do you think I could trick it into running it like a DVD?
Spencer Fowler you better use the hexen disc some apps are meant to be read from disc only... other apps can be used from disc or from the internal hdd
Spencer Fowler you better use the hexen disc some apps are meant to be read from disc only... other apps can be used from disc or from the internal hdd
I think you're safe about the warranty... Pretty sure that 1.2 is a day or two past.
Great video! I recently did the same and upgraded my softmoded Xbox to a WD 1TB HD SATA drive using what looks to be the same adapter that you are using. I just wanted to point out that I also purchased the 80 wire cable and got so fed up with trying to get it to fold in the Xbox that I gave up and reinstalled the original cable. I wasn't sure what the result would be, but it booted up no problem! As a matter of fact, I feel like it boots even more quickly than it did before. That's just my two cents. :)
If it wasnt for you with these great video majority would be lost! I was in the scene back in the day when the original xbox was released. Went by Xboxit.00. Did many TSOP flashes etc. Been out of it for many years now, just had my Niece request some old xbox games and I grabbed another original also. Just curios, where can we grab the Hexen 2017 iso? Will it run on a soft modded system? Seems new to me, I do know of the slayers disk which was quite handy! love your videos MrMario!
Thanks!Used this a reference to upgrade to a 320 HHD .Subbed!
Awesome!
Hey Mario
I followed everything step by step, ow getting error codes, unplugged and replugged everything, switching from master to slave give me different error codes, also happens that my old drive stopped working, dang it everything was fine before, just wanted more space
So I am upgrading to a 1tb HDD from stock on a TSOPd xbox. I slapped the new HDD in and hooked it up with the 80wire cable and the Startech adapter (both tested working properly in another build), and when I pop in the my Hexen 2019 disc It doesn't say linux and throws an error code after a few seconds (9 on master, 8 on other jumper settings). Is it possible that Hexen 2019 can't be used as an installer?
EDIT: OKAY so listen to this. I tried every boot method with the startech adapter jumper settings even without the jumper and got error code 9 everytime aside from error code 7 on slave jumper. I decided to try the much cheaper generic IDE-SATA adapter and it booted up first try!!! That is insane to me considering the Startech adapter being much better quality and also faster by 20 seconds when booting to dash on a softmodded xbox vs the generic one. Which makes me think that since my HDD is 7200rpm, is it possible it wasn't getting up to speed in time for the Hexen disc to recognize it?
Thanks for this video!
Cheers From Costa Rica!
F should only have 120gb rest in the other patition.
Hello friends , I have an original xbox 1.6 softmoded and I just cloned the hard drive to a 120gb one , the thing is that with the new hard drive installed after the boot up animation the screen remains black ; even more weird is the fact that as soon as i press the dvd drive open buttom the unleashx dashboard will boot just fine .
as i said its 1.6 so its softmod
Wish I knew what buttons you were pressing at 13:11...
Don't know if I misunderstood, but it seems Hexen formats the hdd twice, once when it detects new HDD and afterwards on Hexen submenus are loaded for NTSC/PAL selection?! Also does it install twice XBOX dashboard?
Awesome video and very informative.
Still best looking xbox imagine this 1.5 inches thinner and a few inches less in width and depth witg the x bix one s internals
Can you please do a video with an SSD upgrade for the original Xbox?
You should try this with an SSD, just for fun.
It would KILL an SSD due to the lack of TRIM functionality!
Well then. The more you know 😂
no, you can use an SSD fine but its still limited by the IDE so its 11mb a second basically
Nonsence. SSDs treat this in their firmware. I myself use Kingston SSDs V300 in my Xboxes since 2016. No issues at all.
It's not nonsense at all. An OS that doesn't know it's dealing with an SSD, will treat it as an HDD - which means significantly more wear and tear.
I would love to try all of this unfortunately my Xbox is plagued with the Thomson DVD drive. Its near impossible to find the Samsung or the Phillips drives anymore. Could you do a video that shows how to take any IDE DVD rom drive and make it Original Xbox compatible.
Awesome :) I have two modchipped Xbox's but still on older Dashboard how can i update like the one you showed i mean the blue one.
So we need that Hexen Disc? What is that and where can we get that? That is not listed in the list of things needed for this whole process?
so I'm newer to this, and I've softmodded mine but not aware of all the different methods. in another video he used the hot swap method to upgrade the HD, but on this one he used the disc to load everything on the upgraded HD. Is that because of the options for upgrading on a softmodded xbox versus a hard modded with custom bios? I wanna make sure I understand the options and methods for each.
Yep, I was able to just load a disc here because this has a custom BIOS.
I never made backups for my x3 miss that customized xbox boot up and seeing Xecuter Rox My Box logo I gotta figure out how to add a new HDD with no current drive. :'(
Theres now a new way to dump the eeprom and use it with XboxHDM32USB using an arduino pro micro
ua-cam.com/video/CmX1fNyJCws/v-deo.html
I suppose the games are installed on the highest partition? FTP or directly with SATA adapter on the hard drive?
Hi Mario, I just bought a OG Xbox on FB Market Place. I plan to TSOP one day, but would first like to get the softmod going and remove the clock capacitor. I wonder at what point I can install a new HDD. If I do it in this order would it be fine. Softmod with Rocky5 > Remove clock capacitor > TSOP > New HDD. I'm not sure if New HDD comes before TSOP. Which route would you go? Thanks in advance.
If you use more than a 2TB, like a 3TB in my case, well you will be limited to 2TB but it will work.
I've been told you can use it all, but partitions higher than 1 TB could cause data corruption. Although I've only heard about that, never seen any confirmed reports. 2 TB is more than enough for me, but it seems going over that will probably still be fine. I've seen people confirm having 3 TB drives in their consoles for years with no issues.
@@MrMario2011 I had a spare 3TB or else I would have used a 2TB. But working in IT, I knew it would work, since you will leave the remaining un-partitionned. Thanks for the video!
What Asus monitor your using on your OG Xbox? and what resolution is projecting? It looks really sharp and full screen.
on that note: will any (usb powered) RCA to HDMI adaptor work to connect the Xbox to a computer screen ?
You can return the 40wire ide cable after doing the hdd transfer. I tested this when my 80wire ide cable didnt reach the hdd bay.
If it's not reading successfully on boot when blank I doubt it would work fine on a formatted drive? I upgrade all my SATA drive consoles to 80-pin wires, not much of a reason to revert back once I've installed the new cable.
@@MrMario2011 i had an issue where chimp wouldnt read the sata converter on a 40wire, i wish my 80 wire would reach over to the hdd bay though =\ i would def keep it in there instead
You might just need to bend it properly, it's a tight squeeze but I got it. I don't ever clone my drives as it seems to be a bit of a hassle. I softmod, then hardmod, then drop in a new drive and nuke it.
If you use a 2.5" drive, you can get away with an 18" cable. The smaller drive, allows you to position it, so as the 18" cable can be routed with little stress on it. One of my Xbox systems is set up this way. Drive easily sits in the caddy for the 3.5" drive, and the cable isn't stressed at all.
Have you ever used a Startech IDE/SATA adaptor? I tried it and it doesn't work for me, while a generic Chinese IDE/SATA adaptor does.
With Startech it goes like this: the startup sequence stutters, the screen goes black and nothing else happens (I've waited multiple minutes each time).
With generic Chinese it goes like this: the startup sequence plays properly, it takes a longer while for the Microsoft logo to appear and the Xbox launches correctly.
It's odd because the Startech adaptor is supposed to be better.
Hey, can you make a video of all your xbox library as part 3 on this xbox ? It will be cool to see wich games you have.
Nah, I'm always getting new games and don't have all of what I own with me.
I have an OLD TSOP mod done years ago on my Xbox 1.0 and I just put a 250GB SSD in my machine. So far with the new drive the UnleashX works great but I am curious if there is any benefit.
Few questions:
- Do I need to reflash the TSOP again?
- Would there be any benefit to reflashing the TSOP?
- I have a 1MB ST that is controlled by a switch to choose between EvoX and stock. How do I know which BIOS I am flashing?
Thanks!
I am not a pro, but not a noob, either. So take my answers with a grain of salt:
- If your xbox shows all HDD space with your current BIOS and you have no intention to use the stock BIOS in the future, no need to flash again.
- I guess most ppl will not notice a difference.
- You flash the BIOS you are currently booting with. So if you need to boot with your modchip BIOS to run the HeXen disc, you would flash the BIOS on your chip, which is not recommended, AFAIK.
Sir! Have you run any speed tests? 40pin vs 80pin?
I'm having problems running certain games like Gunvalkyrie in Unleash X. It works fine on the original disc but doesn't really work when copied over ftp.
try to copy it via the disk maybe the files are corrupted.
hi, possibly dumb question, but if I have a softmodded console that I already was able to upgrade the HDD, would doing a TSOP flash mess with that at all? Wouldn't want to have to back up all the stuff I already put on it and re-transfer. thanks!
Mr mario please help, it doesnt work with 2 of my xboxes. Ive done everything i suppose to do but still getting error code 16.
Mr Mario i hae a question for you. Is it possible on a original Xbox DVD drive to be connected to USB? I was just curious. I know not the best thing to do. But still wonder if it is possible?
Wait. can you just plug the master header into the Mobo and the Mobo header into the HDD?
Did almost this exact process to two systems about a month ago and it works great. the only annoying thing is the in game reset on the 8+ bios. It tries to read the disc drive resets the system tries again and THEN loads from the HDD, anybody know a fix or workaround?
I had problems on my xbox one .
first of all my harddrive spoled and i buy new one but i dont no how change it and put games on it....
Do you guys have any idea about the speed difference 40 vs 80 conductor cables? Couldn't find any reviews on yt. about this article. :)
I have an older tsop'ed MB and a 160gb hdd with Avalaunch installed. Can I use Hexan 2017 to install EvoX and XBMC? Also how can I transfer the installed games on the 160hdd to a 500gb hdd? I would do a fresh install on the 500gb hdd.
Hello Mr. Mario love your stuff I have a question I have a modded Xbox modded about 10 years ago it won’t boot up can the hard drive be bad can you give me any suggestions what to do yes
Maybe, but that's a really broad issue.
Just wondering why didnt u clean your cpu fan and what type of screws did u uses
I have a problem. Can you help. I put a 2tb hard drive in the og xbox. When i put a disc in the console to copy to the hard drive it wont read it. However if i leave the disc in and turn it off then back on the xbox will play the disc automatically without going to the dashboard. I put the stock hdd and ide cable back in and the dvd drive works perfect. Any ideas. Im guessing its eithdr the 80 pin ide cable or the 2tb hdd or sata adapter,
Awesome Upgrade!
😁🤳🤓📸😎🤘👉🎮
Maybe next time upgrade to a 1 TB Solid State Drive instead.😉👌✌
Do you need a special length of IDE cable?
I have a question is that i do not know what type of hard drive is compatible with the xbox
hello mr.mario just a quick question i have a 1.6 is soft modded and i keep getting error 07 trying to update the HDD is brand new and IDE is 80 wire and works with old hdd. i havent intall chip like aladin or others tho do i need to? thanks for all your help...
Hey Mr Mario, I was watching this video yesterday and I thought if there are some way of not hacking the XBOX, but rather replace the hard disk either with another PATA or a new SATA, but just copying the original OS. I don't want to hack it to add ISOs, just a way to update the hard disk. Have you done that or had you seen that? Just a thought.
Not possible, unless you have a custom TSOP or modchip installed. You cannot run ISO files on the system either.
I dont have a chipped xbox will i be able to run the recovery disk?
failing that will making an image of my old harddrive and burning it to my replacement harddrive then fixing the partition sizes with partition wizard work?
I soft moded my Xbox but didn't flash it or anything. Could I still upgrade my hard drive without doing so?
is there any way to increase the e drive size or change the default directory for games?
So MrMario2011 I Moded my Xbox with Rocky(like you did in the other video) then up grade the hard drive like you did here but im getting a error "Your Xbox Requires Service" No code in the corner like on yours and its frag.( Original Hard drive doing it too) Any Ideas what it could be?
But, can I use a 2TB SATA HDD from my PC with a bad mobo?
I am not new to the modding scene but i have been away for a while. one of myXboxes crapped out and im trying to get it going again. it was working fine and as i was copying over some files. then it just stopped. when i booted, my G drive was gone. and now, it just wont boot at all.. i just got an 80 wire - 40 pin cable and still using the same adapter i always had. even tried others. after changing the cable to an 80 wire, it booted but stuck on error 16.. - _-
I use Component cables, softmodded and now I have no red color, green and blue are ok
So for sure that this cable will work? I tried a Startech branded cable and it still ended up being too short for me no matter what I did. I've really been wanting to try out my Xbox for a while to make sure the upgrade even worked but can't because of this issue.
The one I linked will work as long as you fold it up in a decent way.
This worked great for my xbox. When I tried on a friends it seems like the NIC adapter is broken in the xbox. Is there any way for me to copy my xbox drive and put in his? Maybe change my hdd key with rocky tools. change his hard drive key to the same with rocky tools. then clone my drive and leave the cloned drive unlocked. Then Act like I will clone his drive through chimp, but instead put my cloned unlocked drive into his xbox, then use his xbox to lock the drive.... would this work? this is assuming I can even get chimp on his xbox with no ftp access.