Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 5:59 am Post subject: Please help.... Error 21...
Okay so I didn't know where else to go but I'm going to explain my problem. I have a softmodded xbox with UnleashX, a friend did it about 3-4 years ago. I finally came around to fiddling with the xbox again and ftp'd some emulators onto it with roms. Worked like a charm. But I couldn't boot up the original dashboard "xboxdash.xbe" and kept getting an error that it didn't exist on the C: drive. So I tried copying the backup files over but it didn't work and kept getting an "error 3" message. Booted into the "default.xbe" through a folder called "ntds" on the E: drive. There I could see the contents on the C: drive that I couldn't see before. There were two xboxdash.xbe files, one named xb0xdash.xbe and another named xboxdash.xbe. I decided to switch the file names around (very stupid idea) hoping that the xboxdash.xbe file would "exist'. I rebooted the xbox and now it only boots with error 21. I've read everywhere online and what to do. Hotswapping isn't necessarily an option because I don't have a computer to plug the HDD into. I've tried "Frosty's Xbox Rescue Disc" but I can't properly burn the .iso file. I've used 8 discs now with 5 different programs and they all seem to burn the image properly but once done no files are found on the disc but a gig is used up. Xbox won't read the disc either. Any other options please? I really just want to fix this... I'm currently downloading Auto Installer Deluxe 4.2, but I have no idea if the xbox will even read the disc. Please someone let me know of any solutions that may work. Thank you in advance.
dylangendreau Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: May 20, 2015 Posts: 6
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 8:56 am Post subject:
I didn't think anybody would reply just yet but I got an old computer and downloaded and burned to a CD & DVD xboxhdm 1.9 with the linux.iso file. I was able to hotswap and get the program running but once I get to the advanced screen where you need to type "xboxhd" for the login, instead of more options popping up I am getting "Linux CD not found", even though I properly burnt the linux.iso file. Both CD and DVD aren't working. Once again, if anyone can help or have any suggestions that would be wonderful. Also before I tried the hotswapping, with the error 21, I cannot boot up any games anymore. The night before I was able to and I was going to try that live update to get a new dash but now all of a sudden whenever I put a game in it goes straight to error 21 instead of the game which it wasn't doing before.
ArchAngle V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 1:02 pm Post subject:
It sounds like that with all your fiddling the softmod may now be broken whereas before this it wasn't. It probably would have been a relatively easy fix earlier using HeXEn or something similar.
The fact you can't now boot original game discs is another bad sign but you still may be able to cold boot them. If that is possible booting a correctly burned rescue disc could work.
The various Xbox disc drives are very picky about media and the only universal type is DVD-R. So if cold booting is still possible try burning HeXEn to DVD-R at the slowest supported speed using Imgburn "Write Image File To Disc" at the default settings.
I know from personal exerience that this will produce a bootable disc when used with any of the Xbox disc drive types.
If HeXEn boots then I'd use its option to do a complete softmod upgrade. Because it uses replacement fresh stock files it should fix everything. The softmod will also be made safer, using Shadow C protection. Sorry to point this out but if that had been used originally it would have likely saved you all this trouble. This is the reason most later softmods are set up to install it by default.
The golden rule with softmods in particular is: treat the C:\drive as no go area unless you know exactly what you're doing. The only thing of normal user interest there is the, now renamed, original MS dash XBE. That will almost certainly not be xboxdash.xbe.
Post softmod do not assume anything about a XBE's function from the name. Xboxdash.xbes, which you may see on both C:\ and E:\drives, will have almost certainly have had reassigned functions. Typically they will attempt to launch the now redundant online updater and/or Xbox Live. This may cause an error message, a total freeze or, with most later softmods, a reboot to the main dash.
Your main dash XBE should be on the root of the E:\drive and could be named almost anything too, dependent on the softmod type. Use the UnleashX dash and look in System > Settings > System to identify it.
If HeXEn boots it uses an UnleashX style UI and so in its "Admin" > Settings option will give you the same information.
Should HeXEn or another rescue disc not work you could try connecting by FTP. If you were using an UnleashX or, I think, EvoX dash they have default FTP settings. If they haven't been altered it could allow you access via a PC. Worth a try.
Failing any of this working then hot swapping, as you've done, and using xbhdm to build a new HDD is the way to go, so I'm told. As I've no experience of this myself I'd be looking for a good tutorial/active forum advice about the problems lyou've described.
dylangendreau Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
Joined: May 20, 2015 Posts: 6
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 3:47 pm Post subject:
Okay I will try Hexen. I am using DVD-R discs and my softmod did have ShadowC protection. But the thing is it was booting up games no problem and I didn't fiddle around with it at all because I went to bed. The last thing I did was put a game in and loaded it up. Then I woke up, put a different game in and no game worked, then I started doing the hotswap method with xboxhdm 1.9. That's where I'm confused. Thank you for the reply, I'll let you know how it goes.
dylangendreau Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
Joined: May 20, 2015 Posts: 6
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 7:27 pm Post subject:
ArchAngle wrote:
It sounds like that with all your fiddling the softmod may now be broken whereas before this it wasn't. It probably would have been a relatively easy fix earlier using HeXEn or something similar.
The fact you can't now boot original game discs is another bad sign but you still may be able to cold boot them. If that is possible booting a correctly burned rescue disc could work.
The various Xbox disc drives are very picky about media and the only universal type is DVD-R. So if cold booting is still possible try burning HeXEn to DVD-R at the slowest supported speed using Imgburn "Write Image File To Disc" at the default settings.
I know from personal exerience that this will produce a bootable disc when used with any of the Xbox disc drive types.
If HeXEn boots then I'd use its option to do a complete softmod upgrade. Because it uses replacement fresh stock files it should fix everything. The softmod will also be made safer, using Shadow C protection. Sorry to point this out but if that had been used originally it would have likely saved you all this trouble. This is the reason most later softmods are set up to install it by default.
The golden rule with softmods in particular is: treat the C:\drive as no go area unless you know exactly what you're doing. The only thing of normal user interest there is the, now renamed, original MS dash XBE. That will almost certainly not be xboxdash.xbe.
Post softmod do not assume anything about a XBE's function from the name. Xboxdash.xbes, which you may see on both C:\ and E:\drives, will have almost certainly have had reassigned functions. Typically they will attempt to launch the now redundant online updater and/or Xbox Live. This may cause an error message, a total freeze or, with most later softmods, a reboot to the main dash.
Your main dash XBE should be on the root of the E:\drive and could be named almost anything too, dependent on the softmod type. Use the UnleashX dash and look in System > Settings > System to identify it.
If HeXEn boots it uses an UnleashX style UI and so in its "Admin" > Settings option will give you the same information.
Should HeXEn or another rescue disc not work you could try connecting by FTP. If you were using an UnleashX or, I think, EvoX dash they have default FTP settings. If they haven't been altered it could allow you access via a PC. Worth a try.
Failing any of this working then hot swapping, as you've done, and using xbhdm to build a new HDD is the way to go, so I'm told. As I've no experience of this myself I'd be looking for a good tutorial/active forum advice about the problems lyou've described.
I can't find any downloads for HeXEn except for on "The ISO Zone" and every link is a cloudstor link and whenever you click download nothing happens and the pages just blink then it says you've run out of download limit and I need to wait an hour. I've tried this 3 times now. Is there any other links? Please let me know.
ArchAngle V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 10:04 pm Post subject:
There has been a long standing problem with that place. Apparently they're in the process of fixing it but most of the downloads there are currently unavailble.
We have to be careful discusssing other forums and similar matters here
so I won't say any more.
I'm sure if you Google Heimdall's Xbox Engineering disc you should be able to find it somewhere else. But, as said, unless you can cold boot original Xbox game discs then there is not much point in trying to use a HeXEn disc. However it is burned if the softmod is broken it simply won't boot.
I really can't think of a likely explanation for the cause of your original problem if you already had Shadow C protection unless it was some form of HDD failure. There are a few games which will try to update the MS dash and in doing so break the softmod but this is exactly what Shadow C protection is supposed to guard against.
dylangendreau Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
Joined: May 20, 2015 Posts: 6
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 10:19 pm Post subject:
ArchAngle wrote:
There has been a long standing problem with that place. Apparently they're in the process of fixing it but most of the downloads there are currently unavailble.
We have to be careful discusssing other forums and similar matters here
so I won't say any more.
I'm sure if you Google Heimdall's Xbox Engineering disc you should be able to find it somewhere else. But, as said, unless you can cold boot original Xbox game discs then there is not much point in trying to use a HeXEn disc. However it is burned if the softmod is broken it simply won't boot.
I really can't think of a likely explanation for the cause of your original problem if you already had Shadow C protection unless it was some form of HDD failure. There are a few games which will try to update the MS dash and in doing so break the softmod but this is exactly what Shadow C protection is supposed to guard against.
Well I'll try it out once I get home. I just have no idea why it isn't even booting up games anymore. It stopped that before I even opened it up or tried anything on it which is the part that doesn't make sense...
dylangendreau Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
Joined: May 20, 2015 Posts: 6
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 12:54 am Post subject:
ArchAngle wrote:
There has been a long standing problem with that place. Apparently they're in the process of fixing it but most of the downloads there are currently unavailble.
We have to be careful discusssing other forums and similar matters here
so I won't say any more.
I'm sure if you Google Heimdall's Xbox Engineering disc you should be able to find it somewhere else. But, as said, unless you can cold boot original Xbox game discs then there is not much point in trying to use a HeXEn disc. However it is burned if the softmod is broken it simply won't boot.
I really can't think of a likely explanation for the cause of your original problem if you already had Shadow C protection unless it was some form of HDD failure. There are a few games which will try to update the MS dash and in doing so break the softmod but this is exactly what Shadow C protection is supposed to guard against.
Yeah I can't even cold boot the original xbox discs. I have no idea what to do. My xbox is basically just garbage now so that's great. Going to try xboxhdm 2.2 with USB even though I don't have my eeprom.bin file and if that doesn't work then it's basically over. Thanks for trying to help though.
ArchAngle V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 CE
Joined: Oct 03, 2014 Posts: 362
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:59 am Post subject:
There is always a fix except in cases of hardware failure of course.
Its no help at this point but I was thinking about the problem you had originally. That was probably because what caused the trouble, maybe accidentaly deleting or renaming a file on the E:\drive, would not have affected the Xbox until after it had been shutdown.
Some of the changes you can make to the Xbox, deliberately or accidentally,may not be enabled immediately or even by a reboot. The machine will work as it did before until shutdoom and restart.
You clearly need specific advice about using XBHDM and that is outside my experience. As there seems to be no people here who can help I hope it will be alright to suggest looking for that in another more populated forum. A hint: you have already mentioned the place I would go for such advice.
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