my hard mod xbox hd died
did the hot swap xboxhdm v1.9 to install a new hdd cause didnt have the eeprom
the xbox is booting up now to the white microsoft logo and to the green dashboard
have set the date and other settings
but the dvd drive is not working
its not reading anything
tried couple of origonal and back up games but none seem to work
what have i done wrong
how do i get the back up of my eeprom now for further hdd upgrade ive done now with a 20 gb one just to try will want to put a bigger hdd in future can you point me to the right direction
thanks

You get the eeprom backup with Evox or Config Magic. Use FTP to put them onto your Xbox and retrieve eeprom.bin from the Xbox.

The most likely explanation is that your DVD breaking is a coincidence, or that the cable is loose. Remove and reseat the IDE and power cable to the DVD. It's always possible that you fried the DVD drive while doing the hotswap, especially if you didn't earth the Xbox to your PC while you were hotswapping. If that's the case then you need a replacement DVD drive.

See the link in my signature for softmod hard drive upgrades.

can i fry the dvd drive even if only the power cable was connected only the ide cable was out for the hot swap to get error 11
how do you change the dvd drive
any tutorial for that
whats the best software to use for the back up and to put a new big hdd in the xbox
any tutorial for that or links
thanks
ps ive got a dvd drive spare can i use it in the xbox

Unlikely, but it might happen once in a blue moon - you might just have been unlucky.
It's a straight physical swap, and doesn't need a tutorial.
I've already answered this. See the link in my signature for softmod hard drive upgrades.
Only if it's a spare Xbox DVD drive. You can make a standard DVD drive work, but it's not simple, and it will never read Xbox games.

cant fix the dvd drive
thought i will ftp into the box
and its not working as well
im using a straight cable the xbox is connected to the router
has got an ip
using win vista
firewall is off
which im trying to connect to the box with the flashfxp
user name xbox
pass xbox
port 21
its not connecting to the ftp says time out
i cant even ping to xbox ip
has there been a problem with the nc or what
will try to get a cross over cable and try connecting it to the pc
any comment from you

What is the Xbox IP address?

What is the PC IP address?

192.168.2.3

also tried the croos over cable
made the xbox ip static 192.168.0.3
primary dns 192.168.0.4 its the ip of my pc

pc ip static 192.168.0.4
subnet mask 255.255.255.0

rebooted the pc and the xbox
can ping 192.168.0.4 but not the xbox ip 192.168.0.3 it says request time out
also the icon on the pc shows connected when i turn the xbox off it says local are cable unplugged and there is a red cross on the monitors at the bottom right wheer there is the clock
when i turn the xbox on ,it says again connected and the pc search and take the ip 192.168.0.4
do i have to do any more settings or what
also my xbox hdd jumper is set to cs ,do i need to change it to master as i did when doing the xboxhdm hot swap

win firewall and av are all off
im totally lost here
thanks for your help

Try another FTP client program - I had some weirdness with Filezilla when I first tried to use it, I was getting time out/error messages in one partcular instance.

As I mentioned in another thread here I found a free one: CoreFTP LE and used that instead. Exactly the same set up as I had been using with Filezilla, but it connected and worked first time without similar issue. CoreFTP LE is described by one well known web site as "a top notch freeware FTP client". Whatever, it worked for me and that's all I was interested in so I offer it up as a suggestion in this case.

I've not had any problems with Filezilla since but if there is some specific conflict between FlashFXP and your security software maybe worth trying something else. No guarantees of course.

will try this coreftp le
im using win xp
the pc is not connected to the net
can it be a problem with the hard mod chip ??after hot swap
thank

It's not the FTP client. Until you can ping the Xbox no FTP client will work, so you should focus on fixing that first.

I should have spotted this earlier, but if you have a chip why were you hotswapping?

I'm using Windows XP too so that eliminates at least one variable.

Shouldn't matter whether the PC is connected to the internet or not.

I do suggest you use the cross-over cable to connect direct to the Xbox rather than using the standard cable via router though. Again that will eliminate another variable which may be the source or part of the problem.

Hope it works but, as said, no guarantees.

tried coreftp le
all firewall and av off
win xp
still no luck
the connection is established via the cable as shown in the network and there are packets going on from the system like 30 40 but only 1 packet is recieved
dont know whats the problem here
have also taken all the cables out of the dvd and reattached them
but still no luck
the xbox is not showing any error either like dvd missing
but when i take the dvd cable out it give the error 11
completely lost
any help
thanks

just wonder why you hotswaped to start it if you were hardmodded..
you never needed to have the drive locked. any way thats something altogether diferent and dosent matter.

i was really lazy and simply scanned passed all the posts picking up on sopme words here and there..

So i would definatly check your hard disk jumper settings. i find they work better set to master.

as for the ftp.
are you set to dhcp?
if your set to static then it may well simply be displaying a static ip thats set for it but the router is not accepting it.
When it comes to vista i find that its better if everything is set to a static ip address, but with xp i find you can mix and match "unless 1 system is vista"
so make sure your set to dhcp.



also check that you havent edited your ftp password in any given CFG file.

although it sounds like your on a stock dash..
but there ya go,

now my theory..
you were probably softmodded. and now the new disk dosent have the softmod on there and your running stock so nbo ftp access..
having said That that makes absolutley no sence as i dont get how you locked the new hard disk if the old 1 was dead...
so that leads me to believe that your are chipped/tsoped but only have the stock dash on your xbox. and that the hard disk is not locked at all.

can you just turn off the xbox pull out the hard disk and put it in your pc. then use xplorer360 to view its contents (confirming that it is not locked)

if its not locked then you need to put the dash files on there to enable ftp.

i guess the 1st question that i should have asked is What dashboard are you on?

p.s
your default gatway is your routers ip address if you connect to the router with a straight through.
if your using a crossover but ICS is not set up on the pc then you dont need a default gateway.
you can also set the dns ip to the same as the default gateway.

Oops, should have realised this myself but after re-reading the earlier posts, Heimdal's comment and shambles1980's theory the problem can not be a FTP client issue.

Still CoreFTP LE does work with the Xbox so is a useful alternative if FlashFXP or Filezilla don't suit.

[quote name='shambles1980' date='Jan 28 2012, 08:09 PM' post='4853676']
just wonder why you hotswaped to start it if you were hardmodded..
you never needed to have the drive locked. any way thats something altogether diferent and dosent matter. [/quote]
used hotswapped as when using the aid dvd it was giving error 16 (clock not set ) as my xbox was modded in 2003 with a hard chip underneath the mb ,it had the old dash .never been online for an update just the update done by the games so it must be an old bios not allowing the clock to set so aid didnt work

i was really lazy and simply scanned passed all the posts picking up on sopme words here and there..

[/quote]So i would definatly check your hard disk jumper settings. i find they work better set to master. [/quote]
ive tried booth master and cs jumper settings for ftp but with no luck

[quote]as for the ftp.
are you set to dhcp?
if your set to static then it may well simply be displaying a static ip thats set for it but the router is not accepting it.[/quote]
im tried dhcp on vista pc with av and firewall turned off but the box wont connect
straing cable
also tried with static ip to the box and win xp pc with a crossover cable
still no connection to the xbox via ftp
When it comes to vista i find that its better if everything is set to a static ip address, but with xp i find you can mix and match "unless 1 system is vista"
so make sure your set to dhcp.
also check that you havent edited your ftp password in any given CFG file.

[quote]although it sounds like your on a stock dash..
but there ya go, [/quote]
my dash is green colour basic ms one

[quote]now my theory..
you were probably softmodded. and now the new disk dosent have the softmod on there and your running stock so nbo ftp access.. [/quote]
i doubt it
[quote]having said That that makes absolutley no sence as i dont get how you locked the new hard disk if the old 1 was dead...[/quote]
i dont know if my hdd was locked or not to start with

[quote]so that leads me to believe that your are chipped/tsoped but only have the stock dash on your xbox. and that the hard disk is not locked at all.
[/quote]
[quote]can you just turn off the xbox pull out the hard disk and put it in your pc. then use xplorer360 to view its contents (confirming that it is not locked)
[/quote]
i will try this now
if its not locked then you need to put the dash files on there to enable ftp.

[quote]i guess the 1st question that i should have asked is What dashboard are you on?[/quote]
baxic ms green dash
p.s
your default gatway is your routers ip address if you connect to the router with a straight through.
if your using a crossover but ICS is not set up on the pc then you dont need a default gateway.
you can also set the dns ip to the same as the default gateway.

ok then,
sounds prety much like you are hard modded, the hard disk is not locked. you only have stock dashboard files on your xbox. and you need to put modded dash files on there.

im sure some 1 can help you do that.
I would use xplorer360, but you need the right dash files to put on there. Some 1 like heimdall would better direct you to which files you need to put where on a hard modded system.

it also sounds like you probably have a 32 wire/enigma chip which probably was used to flash your tsop. cant confirm that, its just what it sounds like to me.

Good luck.

yes i am waiting for heimdall replay as well
not keen to use the xplorer 360 cause have heard that it dameages the hdd
will wait for heimdall to advise
thanks

Xplorer360 beta 6 does not damage the hard drive!

tried this tutorial
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/swap-dvd.php

got the AID 4.53 running on the xbox in the slave dvd drive
copied some dash into the c drive
e drive dont know what to do
tried to back up my c drive from e as well
but its stuck now
dont know what to do
what else can i copy
just want something to enable ftp so that i can put games or other things onto it
what to do
thanks

boxer29 where on earth did you read that bit of misinformation?

which misinformation are you talking about
can u explain

no dash copied only few songs which can be played
and still no ftp working
will try other things now from AID to check
any help what to add for ftp
if the slave dvd drive is working i can put some emulators for the kids onto the xbox
any thing else which i need to do
how do i backup my eeprom with AID

-deleted this after reading you can boot a dvd-


"Edit:"
if you can boot a dvd on your xbox then use hexen "heimdalls xbox engineering disk"
Wait for it to boot up properly "takes a while"
then just use the chiped tools to prepair a hard disk for a chiped xbox.
"fresh install C:"

Should fix everything for you.

and FTP will work with hexen running
it will also let you back up your eeprom, but again.. you dont need to lock/unlock a hard disk on a hard modded xbox so dont lock it but by all means keep a copy of the eeprom

but the dvd is booting up from the 2nd pc dvd drive which i connected to the xbox
got AID running and working on to prepare the hdd and putting dashboards
tried one click evox on it
but when i restarted the xbox its going into loop the xbox logo comes up and then the microsoft logo white one and then the screen flickers and then it starts again
whats happening here
gona prepare the hdd again with AID as its working on the dvd drvie
the original dvd drive is not working
whats happening here
have put the hemidalls sbos eng disk to download as well
thanks

got aid 4.53 to work with the salve dvd pc drive
installed avalaunch dash
ftp into the box ok wit croosover and static ip to pc
not working though with dhcp it takes the ip 192.168.2.10 ping ok but doesnt connect
in xbox dhcp is enabled
got xbmc to work on it as well
checked the version from xbmc and also bios checker app which i installed to hdd ,the xbox dvd doesnt work
xbox ver 1.1
ive got a modchip
bios evox d6
do i need to upgrade the bios
evox doesnt seem to work on this old bios
how to do that and what version to update to
yes the hdd is not locked ,it says its unlocked

I was referring to your earlier post concerned about Xplorer360 damaging your hard-drive.

We must have been posting here at roughly the same time and your later post came between the one I was was replying to.

With respect, you're obviously not a noob but, as they say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. You appear to want it all sorted as quickly as possible and have tried out or are considering doing all sorts of things which may or may not be relevant and might actually have added to your problems.

Been there, done that and bought the T-shirt.

From your description something still is clearly not right. My suggestion is don't try to wing it yourself unless you are 100% sure you know what you're doing. Slow down and deal with each matter in turn and follow the advice that Heimdall or the other experts here give you at each stage.

i just googled xplorer 360 and it came with some posts about some problems it created for the hdd
so thats why i was asking
im still waiting for heimdall response to my above questions
thanks

I think you'll find all the 'problems' with Xplorer360 refer to its use with the XB360 not the original Xbox. It is, unfortunately, too common to find posters on forums calling the Xbox360 just the Xbox. This can lead to confusion - try Googling "Xbox" and you'll be lucky to find one original Xbox link on the first page.

The matter I think you're refering to is a very specific problem concerning using XB360 HDD on PCs and then formatting them back again for XB360 use.

If it is the article you mean, the one I found was quite interesting. Mostly over my head, going on about LBA and HPA but the author makes it quite clear it's nothing to do with Xplorer360 and all to do with the way some PC motherboards store specific data (apparently).