Ok heres what happend, i was messing with ftping my xbox, trying to get an emulator installed (Mameox) and eventually giving up in failure. Then when still in ftp mod, i decided to organize The E and F partion of my drive by deleting and moving around some seemingly safe files, but after rebooting my xbox, it stopped booting to the xbmc/evox dash and would only would boot to the MSdash.

I tried fixing this by loading Slayers Evox recovery install disk or w/e and choosing the option to completely rebuild/format and re upload Evox dash thing, then when that finished i restarted my xbox, only to find it still booting to the MSdash. This time however i could not boot to the evox recovery disk from the drive like i used to or ftp my xbox period, It just ses disk is not regconized.

I dont know what happened, It seems as if my xbox isn't even modded anymore.

The only way i can think of maybe fixing this without having to mod my box again is to hook the hardrive directly to a computer and uploading everything again manually from scratch, but i dunno if that will even work because the cd drive isnt even recognizing burnt disk anymore.

Please help

Thank you all for reading.

It sounds as though your Xbox was softmodded, but it isn't modded any more - and it didn't unmod itself, you unmodded it.This almost certainly deleted / moved your softmod dash, and this deleted your entire C partition, including the softmod - Slayers only works properly on chipped / flashed Xboxes.

You have to start again. Make sure you use Krayzie 1.1.1 if you're doing a gamesave softmod, or Kingroach NDURE 3.1 if you're rebuilding the disk with your eeprom backup and xboxhdm.

prob xbox live from a game....

you'll need to re-soft mod.. Did you post this twice?!? dont

Howdy all! I'm experiencing a similar problem. Essentially it went like this:

My Xbox is hard-modded with an Executer chip. I set up XBMC a year or so ago. Life was good.

Well, the wife asked why it couldn't just boot directly into XBMC since I never play games on it anymore. I said, good idea, looked up how to do it. I followed the instructions here:

XBMC install instructions

I ftp'd into the Xbox just fine. Since I was in there, I downloaded and copied over the latest version of XBMC.

I then went about uploading the new xbe file. I made the changes on my PC as directed in the link. I thought it a good idea (apparently I was wrong), to make a copy of the original evoxdash.xbe file. So I renamed it evoxdash.old. I was then going to load the 'new' evoxdash.xbe' file over the FTP. Apparently, renaming the file caused the FTP to stop working. I was completely unable to connect via FTP after that.

When I rebooted the XBox, I now see the MS dashboard. So, I looked up how to re-install the Evox dashboard. Seems like everyone says to burn an iso of the evox files on a disc, boot from it, connect by FTP, and copy over the correct files, and it will be fixed.

Only thing is, I can't get a burned disc to work with the Xbox now! I'm wondering if I am doing something wrong with either how I am burning or how I created the iso.

I've tried the following media and failed:
memorex CD-RW (12x 700MB)
maxell DVD-R 4.7GB (16x)
Sony DVD-R
Digital Research CD-r (16x) (I know CD-R don't generally work, but I figured, what the heck)
memorex DVD+RDL (8x)

I have some Verbatim DVD+RDL that I haven't tried yet, but I only have a couple so I figured I'd check first before I just make more frisbees.

I used Nero (express 6) to burn the CD-RW, but it would not let me burn the image to a DVD-R, saying it was the wrong format or something like that and needed a CD-R or CD-RW. So I used Power2Go for the DVD's. I did the CD-RW with both.

Thre weren't many options in xiso, so I'm not sure how I could have screwed that piece of it up, however, the file is only 2.44MB, so I don't know if that is correct. (It does appear to have all the files in it for Evox though).

So anyway, my question is:

1) Any ideas on why I can't get any of these discs to play
2) If not, is there another way of getting the the new dashboard on? I don't mind taking the hard drive out, but it seems that in order to get it viewable on my PC, I'd need to unlock it first, which I need the new dashboard for.

My last resort has been that when I modded my XBox the first time, I backed up the entire XBox hard drive onto one of my extra drives. I was thinking of upgrading the drive in the XBox anyway, using a spare 100GB I have. So I'm wondering if I could just use that backup, set it up the way I want, then install it. and go from there. That sounds far to easy though!

Thanks for your help.

It's not really a similar problem. The OP has removed his softmod, whereas you have just removed the dash on a chipped Xbox.

Just cold boot with a rescue disc like Frosty's or Slayers onto DVD-R, and then use ftp to repair your installation.

FYI the reason your disc probably didn't work is that you didn't make the iso image with Qwix. Xbox iso files have a different format, you need to use Qwix to create iso images in xiso format.

Thanks. I actually was able to get it to work using the Slayer ISO. I had read that xiso would make the xbox specific ISO, but maybe that is no longer the case.