Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 513 Location: OH Canada
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: hot swapping hard drives with soft-mod. Is it possible?
I am going to help out a friend on this one. He has a soft-modded xbox with a bunch of game saves and such on a original hard drive(WD). He got a good deal on a 200gig HD. Now I'm used to chipped xboxs and xboxhdm, so here's what I was wondering.
1) Back-up eeprom
2)FTP all partitions to my computer
3)Create a new ISO with the ftp stuff
4)Create the new HD with xboxhdm
5)put in my AID disk and boot disk
6)swap out old harddrive(leaving it locked and as a back-up)and put in new one and lock it.
It's number 6 that I am curious about, is it possible to do, or am I better off to boot the AID, then swap HD's and rebuild it that way with the softmod installer option, and then transfer the game saves by FTP.
I don't have anything to do a softmod by scratch, and never had luck with xboxhdm locking the harddrive with any eeproms I saved.
What's your suggestions.
Thanks
deltaarmstrong2000 Moderator
Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 513 Location: OH Canada
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:14 am Post subject:
Well, Thanks to finalcloud, I think I found out how to do this way easier than I thought. Actually, it's stupidly easy. Thanks to his Chimp tut, I'm pretty sure it will work.
I'll let everyone know how it goes.
Thanks for the simple tut
FinalCloud Moderator
Joined: Nov 03, 2006 Posts: 2283 Location: Plymouth, UK
its pretty easy if you have or know someone with a chipped xbox. the hd maker has given me nothing but headaches. if you can get access to a chipped xbox like an x3 chipped box. you could do it using config magic and a copy of the eeprom from the target xbox. prep the hd with auto installer deluxe. use config magic to lock it. just remember to reflash with backup eeprom, or u are screwed.
deltaarmstrong2000 Moderator
Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 513 Location: OH Canada
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject:
Yup, all went well. Just had a little head scratching about the balance of the hard drive, and enabled g drive and poof all was there.
Thanks a lot for the tutorial again finalcloud.
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