Alright thanks a lot bro, once I get my xbox put back together, I'm gonna give it a go.

Okay, well I tried it. It didn't work. I followed everything exactly. I wated til the pc was at the xboxhdm main screen and my xbox was at the M$ dash. I quickly switched them and went to option 2. i then typed xbrowser and it displayed this message:



Can someone help me out? Thanks a lot.

Looks as if the hd is not being palced on primary master, or is not unlocked.

Thanks so much dude for the tutorial, it saved my xbox and my ass..

Well, I put it on the same ide slot that my pc hdd was on, which is the last one on the cable. I thought the hd was unlocked at the M$ dash? I also tried swapping right before the white M$ logo came up, and also right after it came up. Please help.

It should be unlocked, try typing xboxhd first, also to double check its unlocked, swap into option 4, and run atapwd , look on your drive, at the the end, the L should have a - behind it. even if its unlocked, disconnect the ide before rebooting, or it will relock when you boot into option 2.

Well, I did what you said, I tried xboxhd, it couldn't detect my drive. Then I swapped to option 4 and ran atapwd, my 2 cdrom drives showed up on my slaves, but it didnt detect anything on my masters. I ran the detection again and still the same thing. Thanks for your help, daddyj, i appreciate it.

both your cdorms are slaves, and you have no masters?

wow, unhook the cdrom that is sharing the chain with the xbox hd.

sorry, i got mixed up with the secondarys and slaves. my cdroms are on the secondarys. still nothing detected on my primarys. here is what i am doing:

1.hook pc power to xbox.
2.loosen xbox ide cable.
3.disconnect ide and power from pc hd.
4.boot pc.
5.boot xbox.
6.switch cables when pc is at the xboxhdm main screen and xbox is at dash.
7.go to option 2, and type xbrowser.

This is where i get the errror. thanks.

****** PLEASE ADD THIS TO YOUR TUTORIAL *******

k, this sounds a little screwed but it really works.

I've softmodded about 7 or 8 xboxes, the last one I did was a v. 1.6 and for some reason the HD would not spin down, and hotswapping just would not work.

I found this method, thx to kinqroach, which will prepare your xbox for hotswap on a version 1.5 or 1.6 console.

People with a 1.5 or 1.6 who are having problems hotswapping:

- put an audio cd in the xbox
- copy one track to the hd
- play the track from the HD, let play for a few seconds
- pause the song
- you HDD is now ready for hotswap!

- BTW: the button sequence for starting a soundtrack without seeing it on-screen is: A + DOWN + A + A + A(play)..wait...A(pause)

This really needs to be added to the tutorials. i tried regular hotswap 20+ times and it would not detect in xboxhdm, tried this CD method and it worked perfect 1st shot.

p.s. Venom7, your HDD is not unlocked, let me guess you have a newer xbox? try the steps above, they WILL work.

*Added

alright, well that didn't work. thanks for your input though mate.

so now what could be wrong? could the problem be with my pc?

could be damaged cables,

try using the cables from your CD-rom drives.

probably not a problem with your PC, it sounds like your HD just isn't unlocking.

Are you sure you took the CD out before attempting to play the music file? It must be playing off the HDD.

if it were damaged cables, why would it be able to detect my pc hdd?

no i didnt take the cd out. i saved a track and then went to the directory where i saved it and played it from there, not off the disc. but i will try taking the disc out and doing it again, since that seems to be my only option. thanks for your help bro.

i've had cables that detected my HDD on PC but not xbox, they were on their way out, at htis point it can't hurt to try.

ok. i tried what you said, i switched the cables and tried it without the cd. still nothing

why does my xbox hate me?

Venom is the IDE cable on your PC hooked up to anything else ?

1.disconnect it from the HD and anything it should only be connected mobo
2. first boot PC and hit PAUSE/BREAK button to pause the start up
3. place xboxhd cd in cd drive but do not hit any key on keyboard until after you have started your X an connected the PC ide cable .


hope this helps

thanks for your advice, but sadly, i have already tried that method. and the ide is only connected to the mobo.

"Ok boot the PC before the Xbox or at the same time, the xbox takes around 8 seconds to reach the part where the White M$ logo appears at the bottom of the screen, at this point the HD will click a few times, At this exact point, swap the XBOX IDE cable, with the PC IDE cable."

And this guy recommends Error 12?

I have Error 12 and no White M$ logo appears, I have tried pulling the hdd's ide cable when the red LED blinks but it hasn't worked for me, how precise do I have to be?

Also is it me or does this xboxhdm choose option 1 on its own after a short time, making plugging the hdd in at the main menu difficult?

I only have one IDE cable, so I put my CD drive on Slave, is this likely to be a real problem?

error 12 wont have white m$ text


xboxhdm does auto boot option 1 after 300 seconds, read my other posts in this thread to find out howto change that time.


Precision is required, but can vary, try and listen for the hd to click, and then swap.

do you have any advice for me all wise daddyj?

I've hotswapped all versions of xbox, without problems.

Timing is the most important key.

Burn the xboxhdm cd at the slowest burn speed possible, as this could be your problem as well.


At the point of hearing the hd click, and before the xbox led goes red, yank the xbox ide ribbon from the xbox hd.

Sounds good, I'll try that.

Is using my PC's optical drive as primary slave likely to cause problems?

if i do this can i just skip the exploit installing part so my xbox would be just like it was when i first got it

see, now why isn't this tutorial up on the tutorials page, and why aren't all the hdd_driver tutorials gone? why? cause I hadn't tried to mod my box yet, that's why.

Ok, I pulled the XBOX IDE cable out when I heard the clicking, then plugged it into my PC's Primary Master IDE slot (on the Linux menu).

I pressed 1 for VGA mode, and I got the following error (I quote from screen)

"ISO Linux error 80, AX = 4218, drive 9F

Boot failed: press any key to continue"

???

If I press Enter then, it reboots.

I've now got this twice.

My M$ logo does not even show up? it just boots up than goes to the error page? when should i hotswap?

Update : It seems my PC's mobo has some fascinating Master/Slave autodetection system that nicely ruins any chance of this working on it. I'll have to use another computer.

Unlimited,

"Ok boot the PC before the Xbox or at the same time, the xbox takes around 8 seconds to reach the part where the White M$ logo appears at the bottom of the screen, at this point the HD will click a few times, At this exact point, swap the XBOX IDE cable, with the PC IDE cable"

DaddyJ recommended to me that after I hear the hdd click, immediately pull the plug. On the first page it also said that doing it as the red LED lights up on the XBOX you can pull it then.

Try all three, I guess, and don't worry about frying your hdd from 3 attempts, there's someone on this site who tried ~30 times.

@daddyj,

I followed your tutorial very closely, finally got access to xbrowser and xboxhd, followed the instructions to backup C to E, no problem, then did install exploit 1, seemed to work fine, but when i closed and then tried to boot the xbox, it went to the death screen. i've tried several times to go back and figure out what files I need to have on the xbox hard drive, but i'm lost. :-( what does the xbox harddrive need to have in C? in E? i've searched everywhere in this thread and a few like it. I'm pretty sure that i copied the right files from uxe-complete v0.2.2 to the linux folder... any ideas?

The UXE complete files go in the linux\C\ and linux\E\ folders (they stand for the partitions).

ok, so i'm copying root to E and then the fonts folder and the dash to C right? i've tried copying some of the different fonts(there was some .bat's to click in the uxe folder, but they didn't seem to do anything when i clicked them so i just manually copied them over, trying different sets) into the C\fonts folder, but everytime i reburn the iso and load up xbrowser and copy them over, i get screen of death when i start up the xbox? thanks for your help Cio!

Please read the readme for UXE complete.

C contains: xboxdash.xbe, fonts dir

That should boot a simple evox dash. If it doesn't and they changed it, you should put the other folder that there on E. Again, check the readme.

i went by the readme word for word :-( arrgggg maybe i should try slayers? or go get a game and do a gavesave exploit? i feel like im so close

slayers cant mod. wont even run.

Ok, maybe its me but try this:

Unzip the archive (fresh unpack, not what you have now)
go to support files dir, run nkpatcher-06-install.bat
go to support files dir, run 71-fonts-install.bat

Open another screen with the xboxhdm\linux\ folder
Empty C and E folders.
copy the CONTENTS of uxe-c-replace to C
copy the CONTENTS of place-on-e to E

Now when using xboxhdm, rebuild ur C drive (option 1-1 i think), then type "xbrowser" in the command promt to get a filemanager, use tab and the F* keys to navigate, copy the "root" folder to E.

If you have a seagate hd you should also install F.

I'll try that, thanks for your noob-tastic patience

well cio, your advice worked like a charm.. i was able to get evox up, ftp in, get my eeprom.bin, and then reburn my linux cd. did boot option 3, got to the prompt, and then typed in unlockhd -a to unlock, and then i got some sort of error thing, but it let me continue on to type lockhd -a.. now, when i started up the xbox, the led started blinking before it even started searching for the dash, then it goes straight from the x screen to the error screen. did it not lock it back right? did I fry my hard drive? i was so close! :-(

is there any error #'x

you can always rebuild the xboxhdm cd with a stock C and try again.

Hook up your HD again (remember, primairy master!) and go to option 3, lockhd -a.

If that doesn't work, you can use option 4 to boot to dos and then use ATAPWD to check security status. Unlocked HD's only have a + at security supported.

I think you unlocked your HD (and have a 1.0 xbox that doesn't give error no's).

Oh and BTW, you dont need to hotswap the HD when you have the eeprom.bin dump! (cause you dont need the xbox mobo to unlock the HD anymore)

i realized that when i did unlockhd -a, then did lockhd -a, to continue locking, it asks [y, or n] as opposed to [yes, no] like xboxhd ... heh, i guess i got used to typeing yes.. so everything is great now, i've got xbmc up and running fine. just a note to people who read this, make sure you have a controller plugged in when you try booting after you use xboxhdm to softmod. again, thanks for all your help cio and daddj! all the naysayers to softmodding can go smoke a c__ck

hi... im having the same problem as some other people... i have error 16.. and i dont get the ms text... so... when do i do it? when it clicks? or... should i wait 7 secs then unplug? or.. should make it get error 12 and unplug when the led goes red? or what?? im unsure as to which method to use...

they way that worked for me was: leave the dvd-rom drive plugged into the ide cable; loosen the cable a little bit from the back of the hard drive so its easier to remove. take out the tray and take out the harddrive from the tray.. this makes it so much easier to access the back. when you start up the xbox, learn the timing of when the big X and the MS text come up. With mine, I would listen for the sound that comes as the X appears, and then count to 2 and then uplug the cable from the back of the harddrive. you want to unplug just before the MS text appears. speed is essential in making the swap, but so is keeping the jarring of the harddrive to a minimum.. try not to shake it too much as you swap(study the way the cables go in ahead of time)

if that was to me... i dont get ms text...

I've been trying to make hotswap but I don't get it, I've tryed the normal way and the audio track way but the best error message I got was when initializing xbrowser an error that said:



I've plugged the CD-ROM in the pri master IDE and sec master IDE, (if not my computer sais: "No operative system found"), and the XBox drive in the other one (pri master IDE or sec master IDE). Nothing worked. I don't know what's the problem.

Plase help me, after three hours trying I'm desperated, I know my HDD still works because I can play music from it, but I don't want to risk it too much.

Thank you.

So I do not need a modchip to make hotswapping work? So this will get rid rid of error 13 and still have all my memory on my xbox because I do not want to wipe my hardrive. But if I have to then tell me how to make a back up up my xbox's drive so I can put everything back on my xbox. Also my xbox is version 1.4. Can I also have some images of what it should look like when I am hotswapping.

@trylks
Seems ur HD is not detected. Try and disable auto detection for the primairy master (where the xboxhd will be) and SMART monitoring in ur PC BIOS. Also make sure the HD is unlocked (if its locked the loading screen will show a bunch of "drive seek complete" errors after checking hda).

Maybe, just maybe, you need to set the jumper on the HD to master or single drive.

@THE HACKER
No, Yes (if you fix the files on C), Yes C contains no user files (no need to worry), a few i think (on the main page tutorial section) but text should be enuff if you read it at least 3 times. Versions dun really matter anymore if you use up-to-date stuff (xboxhdm 1.9, ndure or uxe)

Great. But one more question do I have to take apart my computer for this to work because all I have is a laptop. Also I have no idea which cords you have to swap between your xbox and your computer. Can you please help me?

Someone please help! I am sorry for being a noob but I really want to fix my box so can you plaese help me fix my box . I just really need to know which cables you have to plug in.

Well i must say this topic has been active for ahwile and there seems to be alot of tention but all the advise in here has been great and saved my life...... well my nephews xbox anyway.

Oh and i must agree with the other caller, blind hotswapping with the DVD IDE unlugged is the way to go.

Cheers for all the info

Got some problems...

was going to be a nice friend and softmod his box, i allready got a chiped one no memory card ord what so ever thou.

the thing is, i burned the cd downloaded UXEDM-1.2 and xboxhdm

manage to do the swap at my first try, starting to backup the xbox C:\

after all that, it was time to format c:\ and i used the "rebuild options" as i have read but the thing is i got error no source files... and again error no soruce files.. by now i am all swetty thinking damn i fucked my friends xbox... running MC and i see that the CDrom folders C are emtyp is't it suposed to be like a dash installed there?!? anyway i thought if i trun of the box it will never be accesed again so i managed to copy my backup of c: back to the xbox c:\ and prayed some.. and yeah it booted..

did i screw up when not using the "softmod" script? or did i mess up not dl a dash by my self and put in the cdrom C folder?

coz i never read anything about that in the tutorial... i guess it's a good exaple of error 30 but.. any ideas?

Mvh Jan