Been reading forward and backwards here in the forum, the thing i can find is this.

"
go to support files dir, run nkpatcher-06-install.bat
go to support files dir, run 71-fonts-install.bat
"

And i dl UXEDM-1.2 and xboxhdm, moved the sminstaller and such like the tut says,

and then i see in the middle of the topic page 6 i think this post.. that i have to run som bat files?!? i don't even have thouse or no support folder.. how am i supose to get this working, there is nothing about this in the tutorial.. =/

the thing with tut is that i just have t follow it and it works? with just UXEDM-1.2 and xboxhdm, and the make iso bat i should be all set acording to the tut on the first page. but i get the source file error... there is no evox install boundled??

wierd.. and i want this so much to work!

softmod is teh shit!

did it again now using the command softmod, mention in the ither tutorial.. worked like a sharm.. but hey why all this confusion.... =/

i did it by the book now..

maybe i will try agin to get unleashX it's more eyecandy and i have it on my chipped box.

/Jan

Hi All From Italy !

I just wanna Say thanks, thanks thanks.... i was totttttaly noob last week ..and after some reading i'm arrived here... what to say ?

I sofmodded two xbox easly !!! ( and saved 160 $$$ )

Thanks again ( HBoxHDM + Uxe )

Just two question ..

1) i was able to find something about what't virtual c .. but nothing about when and how to use it ( i have it under evox - apps - but dunno when to use )

2 ) Same as above for detach virtual etc...

3 ) is there a guide like this one for HD upgrade after softmod ? ( i have cd with eeprom and all )

THANKS

a BOTTLE OF BEER FOT YA

Regards


PS I used blind hotswap with cd audio track method.. with dvd cable plugged worked at 1st time for two xbox !

There's one guide and a FAQ (or maybe more):

Xboxhdm For Dummies, hd rebuild, restore, upgrade ..so on
F.A.Q FOR "XBOXHDM FOR DUMMIES"

It's very easy.

1. Plug the HD in the PC and start it normaly with the Xboxhdm that contains C, E and the EEPROM.
2. Build the HD from scratch (that option is in the xboxhdm menu).
3. Poweroff the PC and start it again.
4. Start the xboxhdm with lock and unlock tools (option 3 for example).
5. Write the keys just in case and lock it.
6. You have your new HD ready to use.

For more information read the links I posted. Remember before buying a HD that not all HDs are ok for the XBox, it needs some sort of seccurity issues.

Thx guys... just a newbie question.. how to buy a lockable drive..
i have to be lucky or there are some specification to follow ??

Thx for tutorial it seems pretty easy.

If some one can help me about use of virtual drive and other software installed by this mod i'm done ! ( 3 utils are installed on top of evox.. 1) cd iso extraxk ok.
2 ) virtual drive and detach.. i dunno what they are doing i don't want to crash all !!)

ok... maybe i need a liitle help here
i did everything according to daddyj's tut (well at least i think i did).. then i hooked my xbox up right, powered it up and got the xbox screen of death ... what did i do wrong... i have a v1.0... does it need to be a live updated console?

maybe i placed the uxe files in the linux>c folder wrong... if someone could tell me how to copy the right files might help.

any help would be appriciated!!

--- Chuck

I really need to know if I have to take apart my laptop to hotswap. I really want to know which cables you have to swap fot this to work. Also which program should I use for this to work the best.

Hotswapping to a laptop requires 44pin to 40pin adaptors & extesnion cables.




The files might not be setup correctly, use xbrowser to correct them, did you setup UXE according to its readme?

well... i'm not in a panic or anything (backing up your c: is the smartest thing you can do )... .. i think i did things correctly: i unpacked uxe and ran the 71font file and the nkpatcher thing and then took all of the files from the uxe-c-replace folder and placed them in the linux c folder and so on. i also tried the other font file.. niether of them worked. I'm pretty sure the snafu is on my part.. but i don't quite know what i did wrong

Thanks,
---Chuck

did you place the files on E

I do not think I have any of these things. I need to know all the materials I need to hotswap my xbox and my laptop! You guys need to be more specific about the cords and materials! I have no idea which adaptor I need, let alone know what an adaptor is! Also I need more detailed instructions on how to do hotswapping. All I know is that I have to take apart my xbox which I can do with ease. I need a list of all the things I need to find or buy for this to work. Also I need to know the program that will work best for me when I hotswap the cords! God if I ever fix my error code 13 and have a perfectly goood xbox then I will be happy forever .

Yeah... in my linux c folder i have: the fonts folder and xboxdash.xbe.. and in my linux e folder i have the ROOT folder

maybe i copied the files wrong while in xbrowser?

i am now the pround owner of a modded xbox!!

in my last reply i realized that i probley copied a file wrong.. so i checked.... aparently when i copied the ROOT folder i copied it to the wrong location or somethin as it was non-existant in my PriMas/e folder.. I just recopied it and reformatted c and tada..... SUCCESS!!!!!

your tut kicks ass DaddyJ... was doubting it for a while, but hey, im an idiot ...
good job man

--- Chuck

Hi, i have a quick question, im not a noob to xbox-scene or modding but i am new to hotswapping. How can i hotswap a unlocked hdd to make it locked on my xbox?

you cannot hotswap an unlocked drive.

you will need the eeprom or a borrowed chip to lock it correctly.

I needed help setting up UXE for XBOXHDM but the link you had to help set it up (which really helps) went away and the readme file in uxe complete seems a lot more different than what you wrote.

yeah sorry, the scene was killing my sites bandwith. I will try and get something up on a freesite. and will re-create the guide.

Aight.

I'm assuming this tut works for all xbox verisons?

UXE works on all XBOXs, hotswapping works on all XBOXs, in a word, yes.

Can I be expecting an xbox-xbox tutorial sometime soon? I can't find the other tutorial on this, and want to use this method as it sound a lot easier.

You who doesn't know what cables he needs, ultimately I guess none, you could wire the XBOX's hdd up to your laptop using the XBOX's IDE cable, but it would be really awkward.

(You'll want an IDE cable, the longer the better.)

ive got mates xbox that does the xbl thing(tries 2 keep on updating) so can i just use xboxhdm as it comes or ave got to put certain things in c and e drives, we aint got eeprom or any access to the xbox at all.

If the XBOX is running an application, the hard-drive must be unlocked. You should be able to just pull the IDE cable from the XBOX's hard-drve when it's trying to update and it will be unlocked, plug it into a PC with the right software running or a working modded XBOX and rebuild the hard-drive.

Wooot! I finally did it! Fixed my other XBOX (downtime of... 7 months?).

Firstly, thank you DaddyJ, I owe you that console.

Secondly, some advice.

1 : Error 16 works fine for hotswapping. (Saved me unplugging and replugging my XBOX's optical drive time after time.)

2 : (For me at least) the biggest problem with the hotswapping method is knowing when to pull the cable from the hard-drive. The solution: Use your ears, not your eyes!
When your XBOX boots up (whether or not into an error) you will hear it click, then silence for about a second or two, then click again. Pull the cable when you hear the second click (just before the LED flashes red, but you don't need to worry about that) and you should have an unlocked hdd. Don't wait for the red LED! This means it's too late! (As far as I can tell.)

3 : Easy way to tell if you timed it right.
If you timed it right the XBOX's front LED will light up solid (constant) green, not red, when it no longer has the hard-drive connected.

4 : If you're going to do an XBOX-XBOX hotswap (as I did), use UnleashX (or Avalaunch I guess) rather than Slayer's, Slayer's won't tell you if it failed the file transfers, it will just seem to stop after formatting the hard-drive, I got an UnleashX error code 1117 or something when I timed it wrong and was trying to write to a locked hard-drive.
Oh, also, UnleashX won't tell you "Your hdd is locked with an unknown key" or anything, the only way to tell is to try to transfer files (see also point number 3), UnleashX listed all the usual partitions on the hdd that it couldn't possibly have read from... odd.

There are times when Slayers is the only way to go, such as if you've screwed up your partitions - the only way to fix this is through Slayers (no cache partitions means you can't run XBPartitioner), but for recovering a softmod-gone-wrong UnleashX will do fine.



Thanks again DaddyJ, I finally got it to work.

Seconding the request, this would be really usefull.

Thanks for the great guide.

Well I'm giving up after about 20 tries, I've tried just about every method for getting the hd unlocked. Wait for red led, don't wait for red led, just load dash, copy audio track etc. All had the same result when I type xbrowser,




Found Harddrive.
We will now search /dev/hda for an xbox partition table...

No xbox-partition table found on /dev/hda

Done!!!



Does anyone have their own little trick that's worth trying before I give up?

Cheers

i am having problems with getting to the main page of xboxhdm. i've been working on this for 3+ hours....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! i checked out other forums n tired re-downloaded the program, change the bios, checked the cables and burned the program 5 times all differnt ways n i still can not get it to go. can someone help me? i have a dell dimension 8250 i saw some forum sayin that they had problems with dell. any suggestion will be great or a link to fix this? i need a fresh pair of eyes to point me in the right direction.

thanks for the tut

"Does anyone have their own little trick that's worth trying before I give up?", yeah, if you see the red LED you've done it too late, it should be solid green, don't bother plugging it into your PC if it's red.

I got the timing right without looking at the TV (hell I didn't use one) or the LEDs, I pulled the cable when I heard the second bunch of clicking sounds, or just before it.
Also, you want the IDE cable on the hard-drive as loose as possible - so the plug is only just held on to the socket - you're going to have to pull it out at just the right time.

Personally I only managed to hotswap with an XBOX to XBOX method, but I think the dam thing was locked all the time when I tried it on my PC.

If there's any way for you to get hold of another XBOX (and get permission to open it up) I would advise you to go with that, UnleashX vs Command Line, no challenge on ease-of-use, and you can't have problems with your motherboard or anything, that second XBOX is guarantee to work, and the software is easier.

(Plus in the highly unlikely event of static frying everything, the loss is cheaper, though if you keep everything (including yourself earthed) there isn't too much risk of damaging the motherboards. Be careful not to jog the hdds too much and they'll be fine also, so long as you don't poke at the IDE pins.)
___

The following concerns XBOX-XBOX hotswaps only, where instead of connecting the 'broken' XBOX's hard-drive disk ('hdd') to your PC, you instead connect it to a working modified XBOX.

I read that if you turn off an XBOX, the hdd plugged into it locks to the code that the XBOX BIOS wants, not the code on the hard-drive's firmware, so do not leave the broken XBOX's hdd plugged into the working XBOX when you turn off the working XBOX, this way it locks back to the right code for the broken XBOX it came from. (If it locks to the wrong code you're pwned, as you evidently don't know the code you want it locked to or you wouldn't be hotswapping.)
No point plugging it back into the broken XBOX before you turn anything off - the hdd can relock itself fine without being connected to the XBOX it came from, and reconnecting it 'hot' (power on) just gives you a 0.0001% chance of frying the motherboard or the hdd, so leave the broken XBOX's hdd unplugged when you turn off the working XBOX and when you turn off the broken XBOX.

nvm...i got it to boot but now when i get to the page where i am trying to backup the c: i cannot type anything. does this mean i did not unlock the hd? can someone help me? thank you

Odd, I'm guessing that is never meant to happen.

You only had the optical drive and the XBOX hdd plugged in, and both on the primary IDE slot, right? (Primary to the hdd, I believe.)

I would recommend going for an XBOX-XBOX hotswap, they can't really go wrong, but I guess I'm biased.

From what I know from when I tried it using my PC, Linux won't crash if the hdd is locked, it just won't work and might end up telling you to try again or something. Again though use my method - is the XBOX's LED lit up green or flashing red?

Where is the readme to UXE?

gratz another n1 tut

but actually its better to turn on xbox, then plug out cable afters its at ms dashboard, then put in pc ide cable and start pc u have more time and no difference to ur explenation

"but actually its better to turn on xbox, then plug out cable afters its at ms dashboard, then put in pc ide cable and start pc u have more time and no difference to ur explenation"

What? If you mean it's better to plug the hdd into your PC before turning on the computer? That is unlikely to help - plugging in the hdd after you've been through the boot process of the motherboard is best as it won't give it any chance to object to having a locked hdd plugged in.

You need to make more sense and justify your point.

"Where is the readme to UXE?", if there isn't one with the file you have, I doubt there is one. Not that you should need it, all you really need to know is that yes, there really is meant to be a folder called 'ROOT' that isn't actually a root folder, and it works on any console.

Hi, I've read on here before, first time posting though.

I've been trying to hotswap my Xbox hard drive so I can softmod it with XboxHDM. I have a 1.6b version Xbox, according to this site, with kernel vesion of 5838, 5960 dash. I've read this ENTIRE thread, as well as a couple others regarding hotswapping. This leads me to believe that I am either completely retarded, or this is all a consiracy and you're all liars. I'm hoping for option A. I cannot seem to unlock my hard drive. I've tried unplugging the dvd cable, I've tried doing it right as the white logo shows up, I've tried doing it after sitting at the dashboard for 5 minutes, I've tried starting a game and doing it DURING THE GAME. But every time XboxHDM tells me it's locked.

Would it be possible to tell me what exactly I am missing here?

Motherboard: Soltek SL-75FRN2
BIOS: Pheonix Technologies, LTD v6.00 PG (not sure if that's enough information for this)

Not sure if either one of those could be affecting this.

I read that if you have problems with a 1.6 not unlocking, copy audio from a real audio CD (not CD-R) to the XBOX hdd (using the official dashboard), then play back the audio from the hard-drive, then pause the playback and disconnect the hdd.

(IMO it would be better to not pause the playback, as this way there is definitely hdd activity --> definitely unlocked.)

I am unsure what happen when your motherboard isn't compatible. I can suggest checking your set-up I guess;



So the only IDE devices to be plugged in are

1 : The unlocked XBOX hdd on Primary Master
2 : Your optical drive with Linux disc on Primary Slave

Sure you can't use a save-game exploit?

You should be able to rent the required hardware, just do the relevant checks (thread here) to make sure you have an exploitable game. No real way for that to go wrong.

PC Power supply power feed, meaning those power chords that hook up to the Hard-drive, CD-Rom Devices inside of the PC??? I'd use one of them and plug them into the Xbox instead correct?




How difficult is it to get using NDure instead of UXE? I've heard Ndure is one of the better exploits right now?

Use the PC's hd power conenctor.

Check out kingroaches PC nDure setup, then make the xboxhdm cd with that.

Don't suppose someone could write a tutorial like DaddyJ did but instead use Ndure 3.0 beta instead of UXE???

I'm sorry i'm just worried when I get my new Xbox that I'll screw up

Eventually I will, but its really plug in play, use kingroach's setup and setup the Xboxhdm cd with its outputted files.

Sweet

Thanks DaddyJ, your tutorials have been the easiest to comprehend out of all I"ve read

If i were to try UXE Complete and do everything according to your tutorial (For safetey reasons and to make sure i don't screw up with Ndure3.0beta)

The link for http://redeyedfoolz0.tripod.com/ref/index.html is no longer working and I want to makesure i setup uxe-complete-v0.2.2 okay

Thanks

UXE-Complete has a good readme, but it breaks down like this.

Download package and extract contents.

navigate into the package for 4 .bat files named

*=names are subject to change

nkpatcher06
nkpatcher67
fonts61
fonts71


I always use nkpatcher06 unless you have a 300+gb hd.
then start with the fonts71 file. click those files.

nkp06 = F takes rest of hd after 8gb.
nkp67 = F takes rest of hd after 8gb to 137gb, then G takes rest of hd after 137gb.

Nav to the C folder and copy its contents to the xboxhdm\c folder
Nav to the E folder and copy its contents to the xboxhdm\E folder. the resulting xboxhdm will look like this

*drive contents subject to change inbetween packages.

xboxhdm\C
xboxdash.xbe
fonts\bert.xft
fonts\ernie.xft
fonts\nkp\default.xbe

xboxhdm\E
ROOT\default.xbe


*NOTES
The E\ROOT\default.xbe is your default dash, if you wish to use another dash, replace these files with your new dash, making sure the main.xbe is names default.xbe.

awesome thank you

Bit more of questions

In Xboxhdm/linux/C/fonts I have:

Directory of F:\XboxSet\xboxhdm\linux\C\fonts

12/17/2005 01:05 PM <DIR> .
12/17/2005 01:05 PM <DIR> ..
09/28/2004 05:00 PM 87 bert-generic.xtf
09/28/2004 05:00 PM 433 ernie.xtf
09/28/2004 05:00 PM 40 s.xtf <----- That supposed to be there?
12/17/2005 01:05 PM <DIR> nk <----- Supposed to be NPK?

yeah the s.xtf is a scrap font, used to cover memory layout issues, it wont hurt anything.
the nk directory prolly contains a default.xbe which is nkpatcher, so everything should be fine.

I have been following this tutorial, but I think there is some step I'm missing- When I choose option 2 on the xboxhd menu, afterwards my C: drive only contains the xboxdash.xbe and the fonts folder from uxe. I have tried booting it but I just get error 21. I'm guessing that there is some obvious step I'm missing like putting a default C: layout on the iso along with uxe... Please can anyone tell me what to do?

(I also tried restoring my backed up C: and manually copying the uxe files to it with xbrowser, but it just gets stuck in an "updating xbox live" loop. I also tried deleting the original fonts but that gave me error 21 again...I've been at this all night)

P.S. Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed and easy to understand tutorial. And for any other confused noobs like me, the paths mentioned in the guide such as "CDROM\E\ROOT" are changed to "CD\E\ROOT" instead, at least in the version of xboxhdm I was using.

NM, I realised what I did wrong- I copied the contents of ROOT to E: instead of copying the folder... Now it works! Thanks again DaddyJ for the great tutorial! (Now I just have to get ftp working, but that's another problem...)

The xboxhdm software link details the following:

Do not use this package is you do not have a kernel below 5530 and dashboard version 4920.

My xbox details the following:
K:1.00.5530.01
D:1.00.5659.03

Does this mean I must downgrade my dashboard before undertaking the softmod??

Forget my above post. Read on another tut that xboxhdm works with all versions of xbox and no downgrade of flash is required.

However regarding xbrowser....is this part of xboxhdm or uxe programs...if not I cant find it in the usual places, so any clues where to get this from would be greatly appreciated.

xbrowser is a part of the xboxhdm linux package. you type that instead of xboxhd at the prompt

Thanks DaddyJ...one more question before I try this.. I am assuming that by performing the hotswap it installs the ftp software on the xbox, so that I can transfer files at will on to the xbox eg media centre etc.

Can some one please confirm.