Ndure Protagonist I did tried with the new linux.iso and managed to load xbox live and uleashx. Then I tried PGR2 game and booted, the problem started. After I put the PGR2 and it hung. Now I am not able to boot inleashx and also with XBL and it prompts with error 7. Experts give me idea....

anyone know why i might be getting this at step 2?

cp: Read Error: Imput/Output Error



it just keeps listing that...

saravan, which boxes did you check in Ndure 3.0.exe (re. the new .iso) and what MS kernel and dashboard version numbers does the Xbox have?

I'm having problems with hotswapping the drive over, I follow the tutorial as guided, I have disconnected all USB devices, my ethernet cable is connected, but everytime I make the swap and press 1 it scrolls down, mentions someting about bh with no client!? twice and hangs after the ethernet test. Then it moves on after a timeout I think, and it asks to type xbrowser, I do an it says:

NO PARTITION TABLE FOUND ON /DEV/HDA

What am I doing wrong?

OK, thanks to anyone that can help me, this Ndure app seems an incredible piece of software, I should also just note that it actually says:

NO XBOX-PARTITION TABLE FOUND ON /DEV/HDA

Well, I've tried everything, yes I was making a few mistakes, which I believe I have now corrected, but I still get that message, and also when I press 1 after the hotswap, it goes into linux, and the diagnostic screen scrolls down, picks up my hard drive from the xbox, etc and then reads this error:

hda: read_inter:error=0x04 {drive status error}

It says this error about 40 times and then continues.

I am using my old xbox which I badly flashed my X2 with last year, I have disabled the X2 mod, and to all intents and purposes it is functioning as a standard Xbox, bar I'm using a locked Maxtor 160GB hard drive, would this be a problem?

It also hangs for quite some time while checking the ethernet connection, which I've never set up with this xbox but its just sitting in the back of it.

Thank you to any wise owl who can help me with this, its really starting to do me bloody head in.

Thanks again.

@Kimota, if your X2 is functioning, unlock the hard drive using Config Magic and then you wouldn't even have to do the hotswap. But, I'm guessing you're looking at this tutorial because your chip isn't working. The problems you're getting are because the hard drive is locked. Take a look at the FAQ, it has all the possible ways to unlock your hard drive. Playing the audio track, pausing it, and then hotswapping seems to be the most compatible. If you can't get it working, try with another computer. I'm pretty sure all your problems are coming down to the unlocking.

so, what about my problem. Why do my computers reboot while trying to load initrd.gz? Could i unzip it and change the config to reflect it?

Ndure protagonist :Kernel version = 5101 and dashboard version = 5960

I dunno.

I've tried everything now, I've tried swapping the HDD over when I'm playing a game, playing music on the dash etc, and I still get the same error. Could there be any other reason why it isn't working. I don't have access to another PC which I can take apart like mine. Thanks for your help anyway textbook, it's much appreciated.

This is weird. Cio mentions many suggestions and possible reasons for problems with XboxHDM. These are listed in the FAQ. If all else fails, I would suggest creating a Safe-Mode XboxHDM. There's a link to that thread in the FAQ along with Cio's recommendations.



Hmm.. all you need is the hard drive unlocked.

TRY THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EEPROM

Hopefully, Config Magic was used to lock your hard drive. Try this...

1. Plug your Xbox hard drive straight into your computer like it was a computer's hard drive
2. Boot up XboxHDM and choose option 4
3. When you get the flashing A:\ , type "ATAPWD" without the quotes
4. Select your drive from the menu (top is Primary Master)
5. Select Security Command Set, Unlock With Master Password
6. Type "TEAMASSEMBLY" in ALL CAPS without the quotes

If that doesn't work, then you didn't use ConfigMagic to lock your drive, and this didn't work

If it does work, continue on...

7. Again, choose your drive, Security Command Set
8. Disable With Master Password
9. Type "TEAMASSEMBLY" in ALL CAPS without the quotes

If it works, then your hard drive is now unlocked and will remain that way until you manually relock it again. Now, there is no need to hotswap your drive at all, and the drive can be hooked up to your computer directly. Of course, this means you will have to relock your drive using your EEPROM.

hi everyone, fantastic tutorial and i know its me that done something wrong, just hoping someone can advise me where i went wrong. everything was totally sweet up to the point i typed x browser. it failed to show the correct screen, just repeated the prompt.

this is what i done;
xbox error 21,
PC ide 1 from cdrom to m/b. ide 0 from m/b to pc hd then xbox hd.

not sure if the pc hd should have been on ide 1. if the hd does not to be attached how is it poss to backup c?

if anyone can help much appreciated. cant wait to get it sorted

saravan; further to the partial answers you provided, this is the only advice I can give you...

Here's an alternative method, that can be used successfully by anyone* and unlike kingroach's and this thread's 1st posts it guarantees* that Ndure 3.0 with MS 5960 dual-boot gets installed properly:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...dpost&p=3395658

(*If this tutorial's method is successful, there's enough free space on E, the ftp setup is suitable and the steps are performed correctly!)

think i know why its happened, will try again later. ta anyway

First of all, I'd like to say nice package! I've hard modded several boxes, this was my first softmod. After a couple reburns of Xboxhdm got the mod to work; however when i want to boot to MS Dash it gets error code 21. Was just wondering if anyone else had this same situation or maybe a fix.

For those of you that don't want your bios to skip you cd-rom if there is a cd-r in it, just it esc when it tells you to hit F1 for setup, it should say something about boot selection. Now go to the cd-rom drive of your choice and hit enter and it should boot from that drive. Ive done this on 8 different brands of bios and mobo and it works on all of them...

If i have a stack of already unlocked hard drives from other xboxes, could i just softmod these now and use them to replace stock hard drives that i take out?

if you have the eeprom from the stock hdd you can. You would have to softmod the stock drives anyway...

That doesnt really answer my question. I mean if i just softmod these (unlocked) drives now, will they work fine if i swap them into otherwise unmodded boxes?

e.g. i dont need to reuse the original hard drive (although i will, but ignore that for now) or lock them before they go in

No matter what you will need to get the eeprom from each of the original hdds so that you can use them. Without the eeprom.bin for the xbox, it will not work... Unless you have a modchip i think. I have a 40gb hdd ready to go. All i need is the eeprom from my current hdd and i can swap drives.

Can you explain why?

Im failing to see why you would need the eeprom from the system as you cannot get the eeprom until the system has been modified, so that would create a catch 22 situation. Also the guide doesnt mention re-locking the hard drive at any point, so it wouldnt be for that.

Ndure protagonist, I did as per your instructions. Now the xbox softmod is up. I did installed a 200gb hdd and did a clone from retail to 200gb. Now the partion is same as retail ( C and E). How can I create a
F drive with the remaining space. I booted thru slayer disk and did not get the option of partitioning
F drive. How to partion my F drive.

Actualy, it is quite simple when your not being refered to lots of different tuts. In order for the xbox to use a hdd, it must have the same eeprom. The simplest method to get the eeprom is to go to my thread (headache) and do as he says. I'm about to, in 5 minutes or so, swap hdds.

5-min later. It works. I even get an f: drive... .

Im sorry but you dont really sound like you know what you're talking about, surely you only need the eeprom if the hard drive is locked?

The eeprom only stores the hard drive lock code (in relation to the hard drive), so if the hard drive is already unlocked it shouldnt matter and therefore an unlocked stock drive from a different system should be fine?

You need to lock the hdd for it to work in an xbox without a modchip.

Thats what i thought, but the hard drive doesnt appear to get locked again at any point in this tutorial, i may have misread.

If you look at the tut, it is hotswap. Normally the hdd relocks when you reboot the xbox.

Ah ok, ive got it. The hard drive remains powered throughout, so when you power it off it relocks itself with the softmod installed. Thanks

So i cant use these stock drives as pre-softmodded drives and just drop them in, oh well.

Ndure protagonist, I managed to create F and format it. I tried a copied game and it works. when I put PGR2 disk and it freeze at the loading.... screen. E drive has all game saves. Any idea where could have been gone wrong.

I've been wondering something. Have you tryed any other games besides PGR2?

Dell solution that didn't work.

Reading back, I saw a few others mention that they couldn't hotswap with their Dells, which might explain my problem. After the hotswap, it doesn't see the xbox drive. I've tried it about 5 times, each time copying, playing, then pausing an audio track to ensure the unlocking. I'll tell you what I tried, in case it helps someone come up with a solution for the problem. I have access to 3 desktops and they are all Dells, so if there is no fix, I can't softmod.

I have a USB to IDE converter that has it's own power adapter with a power molex. My thought was that I'd power up the drive independent of both the Xbox and the PC. So I start Xbox, do the copy, play, and pause to unlock the drive, then disconnect the IDE cable from the Xbox drive and connect it to the primary master of the PC. I was thinking that it seems like the PC needs to see the drive at boot, so I would give it the unlocked drive at boot, but I would hit F12 to get the boot options to boot from the CD. It seemed to work...when Xboxhdm started, I saw in the Linux scrolling by that it found the hda, but it was saying something about errors. When I made it to the prompt, xboxhd responded saying the drive was locked. Something about booting it must have reset the lock, even though it remained powered up the whole time. I hot swapped it back into Xbox and resumed playing the paused track to see if I toasted the drive and it brought up an error screen. I power cycled, though, and it came back and resumed playing where it left off, so it SEEMS to be okay.

Does this give anyone ideas for something that might work?

You may endup having to do like i did. Load up windows and get Xplorer360. Unplug everything from your secondary IDE while in windows... Don't touch the power cables at all... boot up your Xbox and do the music thing. Hot swap it to the Secondary ide cable. Go to Control Panel => System => Device Manager => click on something then on the scan for hardware changes. click on diskdrives and you should see a new hdd on the list. Run Xplorer360 and hit File => Open => Hdd or Memory card. It should saysomethging about not finding a Fatx device at the offset. Yet there should be 5 partions listed in the left hand side. If so, your in. Now follow these instructions and your softmoded.


For a dash, get UnleashedX and burn Config.xml, Default.xbe and English.xml to a Cd-rw. Then boot it, put the Cd-r/w into the drive then boot it with the power button. then you just restart the xbox with the power button and you have a dash and a fully mnoded Xbox.

I found, by trying all the methods, that the one that works best is throwing it into an error 11and pulling when the LED goes red.

ok.. i have a stupid question im so n00b at this it isnt funny. im like getting so overwhelmed on this forum so many different things and everyone seems to know more then me lol.

the xbox i have has a slowly failing hard drive and i am out of waranty i know this beacuse it clicks... ALOT.. and ive gotten some hard drive timeout errors and like tons of stuff. i can SOMETIMES load a game but everytime it accesses the hard drive it freezes for about 3 minutes and then goes back to what it was doing. i can get into my reg MS dashboard and do stuff sometimes it freezes sometimes i can do lots of stuff.. i have a spare 30 gig hard drive i can format and use in my xbox.. but all this eeprom stuff is like so confusing. i dont care about xbox live.. i really dont.. i will never use it on this xbox.

i understand the tutorial up until i realise that GREAT i can do this but the hard drive is still screwed up.. and the installing a new hard drive thing confuses the hell out of me.. can someone please help me to the best of there abilities. i am sorry for the trouble i am having but we all start somewhere.

btw my xbox versions are
k:1.00.4034.01
d:1.00.5960.01

basically when your hd is working, boot it, and run evox's backup feature, then ftp in and grab the eeprom.bin file from the backup folder where ever the evox.xbe is.

create a xboxhdm disk with the eeprom.bin, and either your hacked files or an orginal dash.

boot the xboxhdm disk, and the new xbox hd in a pc.

run option 2 - then at prompt type xboxhd. then select create disk from scratch, type yes at all prompts.

then when it is done, press 8 to return to prompt, and type reboot.

next boot into option 3, and at prompt type lockhd -a
then hit y and enter to confirm.

this should return you to a prompt, stating that your hd is locked, type poweroff, remove the drive from pc, and place in xbox, should boot fine.

is there a way to backup your epprom with out using a modchip.. beacuse dont you need a modchip to install evoX?

no modchip needed. just a gamesave access will work.

if none available, you'll have to hotswap the orginal drive to get eeprom.

ok, i will have to hotswap. do you know where that awesome hotswaping tutorial is? i think you wrote it?

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Firstly, thank you Textbox for this guide. You're awesome! I hope you get through your problems at college ok.

Now on to my problems.

K: 5713
D: 5659

I used the guide and it worked mostly. I encountered two problems during the procedure.

1. received the error on copy - file is a directory (185ead00) as previeous discussed
   - Does/will this cause a problem?
   
   
2. during phase 2, I had several errors - no such file or directory. I tracked it down to the ndure script. It expected the directories xboxhdm/linux/ndure/[c & d] to be capitalized. Mine wasn't. So I renamed the directories to all uppercase and it worked!

After the procedure, I have a couple of problems.

1. whenever the XBox is booted using the Eject button I get an error 21. I see that others have had this problem. When I load the ndure toolset (e:/ndts/default.xbe), the root listing of the c: drive are as follows
   
   
   • dir - Audio
     
   • dir - bios
     
   • dir - fonts
     
   • dir - media
     
   • dir - shadowc
     
   • dir - xboxdashdata.17cdc100
     
   • dir - xboxdashdata.17F14D00
     
   • dir - xodash
     
   • file - xb0xdash.xbe
     
   • file - xboxdash.xbe
   
   
   
   Does the error 21 mean that drive c: is corrupt? If I just ftp the contents of drive c: from Slayer's disk to the XBox will this fix the error? I also assume that this will update the Dash to 5960. Is there anything else I should do for this problem?
   
   
2. Launch DVD doesn't work; at least what I think it should do. If I put a DVD movie in the drive, and press Launch DVD, nothing happens. Is that what it is for? OK- I just put in a game and used this menu. That works. So how can I play a movie? It worked before the modding. FYI - I have a 3rd party remote, not an official MS Xbox remote.
   
   
3. When I select MSDASH an error pops up "Unable to load c:\xboxdash.xbe. Should I copy xboxdash.xbe to the shadow c? What other files should be there?
   
   
4. There aren't any sound effects for unleash X when the xbox is first booted, but when using e:\ndts\defualt.xbe there are sound effects? Did something not get setup correctly or copied?
   
   
5. Should there be any preinstalled Apps? That menu selection is empty.
   
   
6. Shadow C is unwritable. There seams to be 2 solutions from this thread:
   1. check to see if shadowc.img is read only and set the attribute as writeable. I'm a little confuse about this. If I ftp the file over to my computer (I'm using filezilla) wouldn't it be writable; i.e. do the file attributes transfer as well?
   2. Overwrite the shadowc.img and filler1.img with a copy from the hdxdm disc. What is filler1.img used for?
   Which is the better solution?

I can put in a game and run it from a cold boot and launch it from Unleash X dashboard.

Now for some n00b questions. Offtopic, of course.

1. Is there a manual for UnleashX?
   
   
2. Evox has been mentioned. Should it have been installed automatically. Do I need to install it via the ndure toolset?
   
   
3. Is there a manual for the ndure toolset?

Currently, I'm reading through the ndure installer for the pc thread. Hopefully this thread will answer some of my questions.

Again, thanks for the great tutorial. Obviously, this is my first mod for the xbox.

--MrC

As far as i know, you must install XBMP to play DVDs with UnleashX. If you can get to the UnleashX dash, your set. you should FTP Configmagic to E:\apps\ and run it to get your eeprombackup.bin That is what i did...

XBMC is a better choice...

I'm trying to do this softmod, but I can get to unlock the xbox disk.

I have a new unnmoded xbox 1.6, Kernel 5838 Dash 5960.

I follow all the great explanation on this tutorial, but when I type xbrowser it says there is no xbox partition.

If I try xboxhd it says the disk is detected but is locked.

I have tried with the music track method, with the error 12 method and with the classic "pull IDE before MS white logo" but nothing seems to work

I know just a little bit of xboxs, but I can understand computers, and at least I think I'm doing everything right.

Please, please, somene help me, because this thing is getting on my nerves.

Thanks a lot, so far a I have read, this is a great place.

Nothing yet, I have tried Xplorer 360 and nothing, tried every one of the recomended ways of unlocking, but it don't work.

I'm have to pay to some idiot with a original 007 or mechassault to do this mod, the thing is, my pocket wil suffer several months.

No other way, thanks for everything.

did you tried music copy method?.. copy a soundtrack in your ms dashboard.. Then play the song for few seconds.. pause the son and swap IDE cables with computer.. also make sure your are plugging computers primary ide cable's master port in the hard drive.

Yes, I tried the music copy method, It doesn't work.
I have switched hard drive around, I tried every position, Primary Master, Secondary MAster, Primary Slave, Secondary Slave... the BIOS detect it, but the xboxhd says it's locked.

Tdata and TheMisterC; your setups aren't quite right and I recommend you do this to "correct" them:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...dpost&p=3346273

You don't need to do the /E/dash part (as you already have it) and you won't need to do the /E/ndts part IF you already have it, fully.

The best way to try is the error 11 method

Get everything ready, close together. Plug av cable into SCART connection, no need to connect to TV. Before powering up the xbox pull the power to the DVD Drive in the xbox. Now power on the xbox and get ready to swap, swap at the first notice of the red led. Works for me every time. Hope it works for you!

Does anyone know what I can do to make this mod work with a Dell computer?
I tried hotswapping with every method listed, but xboxhdm never even recognizes that there is a drive plugged in.
If it helps any, my xbox info is:
K:3944
D:5960

What is wrong with my setup? It works fine, except if i choose MS Dashboard if just reloads Unleashx again, so, is there a reason? I'll do it if there is a good reason.