Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject: Bigger HD for softmod XBOX
Just got a softmod XBOX off craiglist. It has UnleashX as the default dashboard. I want to turn the xbox into a media player.
So I installed XBMC as app, uploaded some movies, everything was working well except that I need a bigger hard drive..I read some tutorial here aht it seems to be fairly easy to do that. I got one question though, can I use an old HD that used to be on my computer, or I need to get a brand new one?
Thanks!
frozenfire1 Administrator
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 1792 Location: Canada
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Bigger HD for softmod XBOX
pggsb wrote:
Just got a softmod XBOX off craiglist. It has UnleashX as the default dashboard. I want to turn the xbox into a media player.
So I installed XBMC as app, uploaded some movies, everything was working well except that I need a bigger hard drive..I read some tutorial here aht it seems to be fairly easy to do that. I got one question though, can I use an old HD that used to be on my computer, or I need to get a brand new one?
Thanks!
With softmodding you NEED to have a drive that locks. Luckily I had an old IDE hard drive that had a locking function. For a full list of drive models check here
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: Re: Bigger HD for softmod XBOX
frozenfire1 wrote:
pggsb wrote:
Just got a softmod XBOX off craiglist. It has UnleashX as the default dashboard. I want to turn the xbox into a media player.
So I installed XBMC as app, uploaded some movies, everything was working well except that I need a bigger hard drive..I read some tutorial here aht it seems to be fairly easy to do that. I got one question though, can I use an old HD that used to be on my computer, or I need to get a brand new one?
Thanks!
With softmodding you NEED to have a drive that locks. Luckily I had an old IDE hard drive that had a locking function. For a full list of drive models check here
I guess that means I can use an old HD from my PC as long as it is lockable?
dartht33bagger Moderator
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:22 am Post subject:
Yes, as long as its lockable and an IDE HDD it should work just fine. _________________
pggsb Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jan 15, 2009 Posts: 5
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:
Great! Thanks!
pggsb Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jan 15, 2009 Posts: 5
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:21 am Post subject:
All right,, just got a brand new 500 GB Western Digital hard drive. Model number WD5000JBRTL, I probably have turned it into a 500 GB paper weight...Help plz!!
The XBOX is V 1.6, and the instruction I used can be found at http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-185.html
It used XBOXHDM v 1.9 to build the new drive, I followed the instruction and everything went smoothly, at the end HD was locked, I got the HDD key and password and everything. However, when I connected the new HD into XBOX and turn it on, it boot into the MS Dashboard instead of the UnleashX dashboard. I put back the original HD and it went staight into UnleashX without any problem.
I then connected the new HD back to PC, and tried to unlock it or re-build dit again. Even though I could see the HD was connected in Bio, the XBOXHD tool would complaint no drive found in the primary master when I tried to run unlockhd -a, the XBROWSER also complaint about the same thing. It looked like XBOXHDM couldn't recognize the hard drive any more.
Is there any way to fix? Much appreciated!!
pggsb
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:04 am Post subject:
Softmodding an xbox is ridiculously easy. With the right stuff it takes like 10 minutes or less. _________________
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