Can You Use Somthing Like Norton Ghost To Clone A Hard Drive? Options

[koalaz2004]

Can I just use ghost to copy the original xbox hard drive to the new one? It would really save some time -- I doubt you can but I was just checking to find out. Thanks for any help.

[Heimdall]

You want a disk that will work in another Xbox. Softmod Xbox disks are locked using a unique key contained in an eeprom on the motherboard that ties the disk to the motherboard. Cloning creates another disk that will work in an Xbox, but doesnt lock the disk.

His existing disk and yours are both locked with different keys. To put the softmod on his existing disk you would have to hotswap his disk and yours to temporarily unlock them before cloning. Alternatively you could use your eeprom to unlock your hard disk with xboxhdm, and grab the eeprom contents from his motherboard and use xboxhdm to unlock his disk. To get the eeprom from his Xbox you need to fit a chip, or softmod the Xbox, or build an eeprom reader.

You should really head over to the newbie section, as you seem to have done very little reading about any of this.