Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: Xbox HD Rebuild HELP
Hello, i have just softmodded my xbox u-leached dash, then i put media centre on instead. But every time i rebooted the box it would randomly pick wich dash it used...so here is the problem i formatted ALL partitions and put the media centre on it rebooted xbox and it all went wrong and i get service error 13. Tryed a hot swap but no luck used a bootable linux disk on my pc to rebuild the drive but still no luck. i have brought 2 drives off ebay and the giver service error 5. Is there anything i can appart from a mod chipin it?
pirrup V.I.P. Lifetime
Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 1345 Location: belgium
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:33 am Post subject:
a softmodded xbox needs a locked hd .
and it needs to be locked with the eeprom from that xbox.
so what you can do is hotswap to fix your retail hd (if it is still locked)
Ok. the HD was formatted so the eeprom has gone and i formatted the partition with the backup on it...so does that only leave mod chip then >C:
shadtor Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:
No, you can still do a hotswap, just did one last week without eeprom. I'm at work right now, but will post details when I get home.
shadtor Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: hotswap
just follow pirrup's tutorial http://xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-161.html, its pretty straight forward, if you have trouble finding msdash, pm, I'll get it to you. Took me a couple of attempts my first time, but it does work.
shadtor Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:
was being little stupid here, ms dash is right under pirrup's signature
pirrup V.I.P. Lifetime
Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 1345 Location: belgium
thanks have tried this serveral times but i just cant get the drive to unlock. i have gotten 2 new original drives of ebay but they dont work either. how long do you have to wait 4 the drive to unlock.
shadtor Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:
You don't have to wait, as long as you unplugged power from dvd drive in xbox, then power up, you'll get the service screen, then swap ide cable from your computer. Should be good to go, it did take make a few attempts the first time I hotswapped.
spanker1515 Xbox-HQ User
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 17
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:
nice one dude i will keep trying... failing that i will get a matching bored and drive..
sadohert Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Mar 07, 2006 Posts: 7
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: My experience.
Dude! That is amazing. Yesterdays goal was simply to upgrade versions of some of my software. I softmodded using a method other than SID a few months ago, and basically I somehow got everything all monkeyed up when I tried to do the upgrade. I'm not going to say I didn't do any stupid bold moves (it was a long, complicated day with my wife wondering why the hell things were getting worse). Either way, I'm left with a totally buggered harddrive, and all I can do is load games. I can't even do the "Run Linux" through Mech Assault because the system doesn't recognize the memory card. One note I'd add from my experience.
- The timing of unplugging the IDE from the xbox was important. I was doing this without even using the xbox display at first. I'd just wait till it was turned on and then continue on with the directions. The drive would come up as not unlocked, or as the primary slave drive. I found another post with someone saying you had to pull the cable out JUST before the standard error screen comes up:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=225796
When I did this, everything worked like a charm.
Thanks pirrup et al.
Stu
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