alright well a couple of hours ago i was under the impression that in order for you to go on xbox live, all you need to do is switch off the modchip, but i have just recently seen a topic saying that if u have a dashboard or nething other then that then you might get banned, here is the "main" (1st) post of the thread:

The best thing would be a 2nd "virgin" Xbox... I Think...
OK... no Help at all ... Sorry

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I have never used live, so I can't tell you from experience, but I can tell you from knowledge that if you put everything in F you will be safe. Since a stock hd has no F partition, it will never look there. You can put your dashboard(s) there as well and boot to them.

Most bioses boot from a dashboard in C, so you need to get a bios that will boot from a dash in F. I'm not sure which do that, or if xbtool lets you change that, as I have never done it. If your hard drive is stock, then it needs to be a seagate to have a F partition. You need to format F and you will get 2GB. If you have a larger hd, you will have an F already.

That's my knowledge, however I would like for someone that uses live to respond, because I can't talk from experience.

seagate= hard drive manufacturer/company that makes the hard drive i believe.

Seagate is a brand of hard drive. The other brand xboxes come with is western digital. If you use slayers or evox or something to format F and it works, and comes up with 2GB, then it's a seagate, if not, its a western digital. Or you can tell by just looking at it.

ok, so basically, if ive got a seagate hard drive in there already, i jus need 2 use evox/slayer and itll do it (p.s how will i know if another 2gb have been free'd up)

and if i have the western 1 is my only option 2 buy a seagate???

ill make a note 2 look 4 which brand, when my modchip is gettin installed


Still lookin 4 help wit the main question----> xbox live

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I have a western digital 120gb drive and I use evo-x and when I turn off the mod chip I can still use Live my box has been modded for about 2 months and I have yet to ge6t banned. Im guessing that if u can get to the ms dash with the chip turned off then u will not get banned.

well i dunno wut to think

i dun exacly know wuts goin on, but im jus gonna take my chances, and jus if im gonna go on live, jus turn off the modchip and hope for the best


but really, can m$ do this, like having a modchip isnt illegal, backing up your own BOUGHT games is legal, so im jus wonderin if their takin it 2 far by tryin 2 find programs needed to play backed up games, i know they dont want it on live bcuz u can cheat, but there really is no point in banning people who are going on live with their modchip turned OFF, so they cant cheat

I don't mess with live and basicly don't even have time to play any of the 30+ games I have now on my hard drive, but onesikgypo did you check the tutorial
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/xlive.php to see if this might help.

I have avalaunch in my C: I am still not banned from xbl

Well, if you do get banned from xblive, I have some eeproms for $3.

yeh well lets jus hope that wont happen...ne way i think ill b right if u jus turn off the modchip when goin on LIVE, i think if that article wuz true, they went into like a lil frenzy tryin 2 find ppl, but if ne1 was banned for an unknown reason or any otha reason then having thir modchip on plz post back

3 bux, im gonna keep that in mind, a small price 2 pay 2 play live

yea me too! But yea if u have a western digital stock (original hard drive) and want to put everything on the F:\ drive then just buy a larger one. but i doubt that m$ would be conducting scans Because of the bandwidth issue. if they were to do a scan they would have to do it very slowly ( about 10kbps) and that would take forever to scan the entire c and e drives. plus F: doesn't get mounted in the stock bios so if everythings there then they couldn't scan it anyway