Xbox Hd Maker And Recovery Tool Not Booting -help! Options

[redcheeks1977]

Hi everyone,

please excuse the idiotic question, but I am desperate! I have created the image with the 'make-iso-win.bat' process, and burnt the image to dvd. unplugged all hard drives except for the blank target drive, and only have one dvd drive attached. Set bios to boot to cd drive, turn on pc and..."BOOT MGR is missing, press CTR ALT DEL to restart".
Have tried recompiling disc and reburning disc, no joy. Any suggestions or ideas would be most appreciated - have spent the last month building an arcade cabinet and downloading roms etc, but you can't get many psx games on an 8gb harddrive!

Also slightly paranoid I have the wrong eeprom file saved. The instructions stated that the eeprom file would be in E:BackupMS. However I found the file sat in my R drive (I bought the xbox already softmodded from Ebay). Should I be worried?

Daniel.

[Heimdall]

Burn it to CD, not DVD.

There isn't a particular place where eeprom.bin should be, and the Xbox doesn't have an R partition. If you are using instructions that tell you that the eeprom should be in E:BackupMS then you should question anything else they might say, because they have clearly made assumptions that may not be true for your Xbox. You might want to have a look at the link in my signature - build a new softmod hard disk with eeprom - for an overview of a version of the process that should work in all cases.

To confirm that the eeprom.bin you have found is correct, open it with Live Info, and check the serial number against the one on the bottom of the Xbox - if it matches then it should be the right eeprom. Alternatively use Evox or Config Magic to take your own eeprom backup.

[redcheeks1977]

Cheers for the advice. My xbox appears to have a C, E, Q and R partition. Aside from teh cd drive of course. I did read in teh instructions that it said CD, but the iso was 2.78 gig....

[Heimdall]

Don't use the contents of your current C and E partitions - that's why your iso is way too big, because you are using your current E partition. Build a clean version as described in the links in my signature.

[shambles1980]

.."BOOT MGR is missing, press CTR ALT DEL to restart".
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set your bios to boot from the cd

[redcheeks1977]

Okay, building a hd from scratch as per Heimdalls excellent tuition..

Found and moved all the relevant files ready to make the xbohdm image, except for the eeprom.bin - No sign of it in the ndure files, did find one in the AID:\Files\eeprom folder Is this the right one?

[Heimdall]

No. See your other post on this subject.

[redcheeks1977]

Ok! So Reattached the old drive, copied over the eeprom.bin file, went through all the steps no problem. Attached the new drive to xbox annd...Get an 05 service required message on startup. From googling this it would appear to be an error meaning your drive isn't locked. Have checked with the bootup disc, and it says it is locked. Any ideas? Beginning to cry onto my keyboard now!

[shambles1980]

here is my 20 step program..
just a note im getting tired of typing this out lol..

(im assuming your using xboxhdm 1.9 )
1. Get your Correct Eeprom.
2. make a correc xboxhdm disk as outlined above.
3. change cd/dvd on pc to slave
4. change xbox hard disk to master
5. Connect the hard disk to ide slot 1 as primary master
6. set bios to Not detect the hard disk "primary master none" (if you cant do that leave the power unplugged from the xbox hard disk when you boot up between steps 8 and 9 Untill after the bios has failed to detect the hard disk)
7. Set the bios to boot from cd 1st.
8. Power off the computer
9. power on the computer and wait till it has finished detecting hard disks
10. xboxhdm will boot. select option 1 build a hard disk from scratch
11. answer yes to the questions like Build C and E (type yes not just Y if it asks for a yes. type Y if it asks for a y)
12, WAIT (it takes ages) when its done type: poweroff
13 the pc is now off if you could not dissable the hard disk detection in the bios remove the power from it or turn on your computer proceeed to step 15
14. power on the pc and wait for the computer to finish detecting your had disks, then reconnect the power to the hard disk
15. xboxhdm will boot Select option 3
16 when you are able too type: lockhd -a
17 when its done (it will say command completed sucsessfully on screen so look fo it) type: poweroff
18. dissconnect the hard disk from the pc.
19. Put that hard disk in your xbox
20. provided the xboxhdm disk was built correctly with the correct eeprom then your xbox will now work.

[redcheeks1977]

Yeah, have followed all teh steps ala Heimdall and yourself, still getting the 05 error. Wondering if I have put the ndure files in the wrong places. Going to start everything from scratch, watch this space..

[Heimdall]

You're getting Error 5 because you aren't locking the hard disk. In step 16, when you type

lockhd -a

do you get an error message?

[redcheeks1977]

No, it said completed successfully. Plus i tried the lockhd -a a second time, and it said already locked.

Have been retracing my steps as a process of elimination. I think the problem is I am not putting the ndure files in teh right way, as it is giving me an input/output error when i try to run the ndure script.

Thanks for your help and patience on this, I am normally quicker at picking things up!

[prime2010]

I have a similar issue but my cd boots fine. My computer is a MSI 890GXM-G65 and I think its incompatible with Linux (I know AMAZING).

All linux versions known tried give this including the xboxhdm disc

Usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
CRASH... keyboard lights die..

I tried disabling the usb stuff but my keyboard is usb dependant and there is no other connection method. (infact I have ps/2 it seems. Might try that.)

This really has me stumped. Basically I need to rebuild this hdd but this pc aren't booting linux. If anyone finds out a solution let me know and sorry if it seems I hijacked this thread.

I doubt there is a solution but find a old pc and use that.



Nevermind, found a solution, Disable all my USB ports and use ps/2 keyboard, what a bitch but. Now to get the cd burnt right with all the software (as it didn't find anything with xboxhd command)

This post has been edited by prime2010: Oct 25 2011, 11:01 AM