Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: Softmoded Box Harddrive Limitations
I've been strolling through the forums for a couple of days and I can't seem to find the exact information I'm looking for on this topic. A friend of mine wants his Xbox softmodded, and wants a larger harddrive put into it. He is looking at a shiny 750 GB model like I have in my chipped box, but I wasn't sure if there were drive size limitations with the softmodded boxes. It's been about a couple years since I've had to softmod any boxes, let alone put a larger hard drive in. I've already tried to talk him into getting a chip, but he refuses.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:
If he plans on using unleash x, heres how to do it: build the harddrive however your gonna do it (chimp or xboxhdm 1.9),go to your system/settings/storage menu, enable F: (if you havent allready), and finaly enable G:. Tahts all you gotta do. I'm sure its similar with other dashboards. _________________
crash04 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:
That is what I thought on setting up the drives, and it is good to hear their aren't any size limitations. This will be the 2nd drive I've put in using the xbhdm method. Not bad way to go, but I prefer chips hands down. I never put anything but UnleashX to start with for the guys I chip/softmod for. I'll put XBMC on as an app most of the time though. I have been missing from this forum for a long time, I really need to get back into the swing of things.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:
With a hard drive that size your going to need to use 32k clusters to stop the data from currupting when the hdd starts to get full.
crash04 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:
Already got that covered, but thanks for reminder. I have that on my normal steps for new drives, softmod or chipped, but sometimes I just skip certain steps of things I've done before. Always good to have a reminder of important stuff like that. He would kill me if he had to retransfer over all of his music, tv shows, and movies if that problem had occured.
J_Smoke Xbox-HQ Freak
Joined: Sep 09, 2007 Posts: 599 Location: my own lil modded world :)
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:
Good lookin out wes I was gonna say the same thing till I saw you did. LOL. Yeah defenitly don't forget to use 32k clusters crash. _________________
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:
crash04 wrote:
Already got that covered, but thanks for reminder. I have that on my normal steps for new drives, softmod or chipped, but sometimes I just skip certain steps of things I've done before. Always good to have a reminder of important stuff like that. He would kill me if he had to retransfer over all of his music, tv shows, and movies if that problem had occured.
Good deal man, watching that bar cross the screen over and over sux bad.
Jsmoke man i got the quickness.
J_Smoke Xbox-HQ Freak
Joined: Sep 09, 2007 Posts: 599 Location: my own lil modded world :)
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject:
That you do wes that you do. Not to mention my sh**ty @$$ dial up takes for ever to do anything took like 5 minutes for me to log onto MSN to check my email. _________________
crash04 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject:
Dial-up never = $peedy
J_Smoke Xbox-HQ Freak
Joined: Sep 09, 2007 Posts: 599 Location: my own lil modded world :)
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:
Yeah very true. Anyone ever heard of internet 2 though??? 120GB\s download speed. Now that's what I want. Also they're workin on a new type of connection I saw in popular mechanics thats supposed to be about 160 times faster than cable connection's top speed. _________________
crash04 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Central Indiana
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:
I'm happy with my current speed, and I figure that connection is going to be outrageously expensive. Of course what we pay for internet here in the states and the quality we get is horrendous.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:
I posted a story on here a while back about a women in aussi that had a fiber wire hookup and was downloading full length movies in 3 to 4 sec. that sounds good to me.
J_Smoke Xbox-HQ Freak
Joined: Sep 09, 2007 Posts: 599 Location: my own lil modded world :)
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:
Yeah internet 2 is only for large schools labs etc.. and I've heard of a few people doing what your taling about wes. What I read in pop mech they were using crystals and fiber optic cable I believe. _________________
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LOL. Yeah defenitly don't forget to use 32k clusters crash.
Now that's what I want. Also they're workin on a new type of connection I saw in popular mechanics thats supposed to be about 160 times faster than cable connection's top speed. 
