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Not that it matters now, but when cloning, did you use the Selective Cloning option in Chimp? Was the original hard drive a stock 8GB drive or an already larger updated drive? How is your Xbox modded: soft or hard mod?

There should be a default.xbe file in that zip. One way you can do this is to make a sub folder inside your Games folder. Inside that subfolder place the game xiso and that default.xbe file. You would then go to File Explorer and navigate to that default.xbe file. Once highlighted you press the white button (if I recall correctly) and then select “rename xbe title” or something very similar if I’ve forgotten the exact wording. Then enter your new title. After you do that (and probably a restart you should see your game show up under Games off the main menu with the new title you’ve given it. That’s the down and dirty way to do anyhow. Lol. There may be a nicer way to fix game titles but that’s the way I did it years ago.

Ah, okay. So if all that has happened, then I would reapply a thermal coupling solution.

That's for the Extras Disc, i would like to use it for my .iso backups. Is there anyway i can use it for that or am i doing something wrong? Thanks

Did you try to lock the drive after backing up the eeprom to the chip? GoTeamaScotch has provided some great info and I'm assuming you mean that you tried a known working, "40 pin IDE" cable. What do you mean by all clients are empty during FTP? You should be able to log right into the drive using Filezilla. If you're using the correct settings and IP address.

The guy I bought it off of had definitively replaced the paste already and I already re-pasted it again after pulling the heat sinks towards the beginning of this adventure. I may have schmooed a little too much on there or not cleaned them well enough. I didn't have to pry at all to remove the heat sinks so I doubt I damaged the chips. From all the reading I've done on these systems, they seem to be surprisingly durable but also super finicky. Invisible trace rot, bad caps with no signs, stupid disk drives. It all seems fixable, but stupid hard to diagnose. I ordered more thermal paste and I'm gonna drown those chips in ISO soon

Hmmm... Not SATA / adapter, just replacement IDE with tested 80-pin. Will pull the drive, test, echo back, sure. Also, "Disk Tools" showing "Lock Hard Drive" implies to me it either is unlocked, or the chip can't talk to it. Tried locking it as a means of verifying communication, like I did with the "Format" command. So, incorrect key is E06...haven't looked at the full table. Any thoughts on retrieving the EEPROM backup from the chip itself? This is primarily what I'm interested in here...once I have the EEPROM, I can hook it to the PC and (eventually, it's a process...) do whatever I want with it.

Why lock the drive at all? Hardmodded Xboxes don't need the drive to be locked. Skip the lock entirely if possible. Error 09 is "Hard drive parameters are missing or incorrect". It's not a common problem. If the Xbox couldn't detect the drive at all, it would show a different error code (E08). If it wasn't locked correctly, it would give error 06. I don't think it's related to locking. XeniumOS failing to format the drive is also suspicious. Is your HDD a SATA drive? Are you using an adapter? If so, what kind? And are you using the stock IDE cable or an 80-wire cable? Do you have the ability to hook the drive up to a PC? Are you confident the drive isn't dead to begin with? Also, XeniumOS is outdated at this point. Once you get your HDD working, consider upgrading the firmware to PrometheOS.

Oh, has this box been fun Started with no power at all, won't even blink. Opened it, 1.6 with Xenium Blue in it, bulging caps abound....bleh. Recapped (quite the adventure), but unsure of the work. Box powers up now, but red-lights with E09, HDD access. HDD sounds fine / feels fine, so it's either 1) IDE cable, 2) craptastic recap work ("recrap"? haha), or 3) incorrectly keyed HDD. Tested IDE cable, not an issue, same results. No way to test recrap, IMO. Working towards incorrectly keyed HDD, but don't have backup. Here's where the fun starts. Hitting the eject button activates the chip, boots to Xenium OS 2.3.0. Great, EEPROM tools: backup EEPROM: to the chip itself. Setup FTP / Telnet / all that, but ALL clients are showing empty when connected. How can I download the EEPROM backup off the chip itself? Have looked at disabling passive mode, etc. but can't get anything to work / show downloadable data. Remember when responding, no HDD access. Disk tools is showing "Lock Hard Drive", but doesn't work. "Format partitions" gives "Failed to format partition". Can't tell if it's recrap, HDD is actually dead, or just incorrect key. Any help appreciated, this has been quite the adventure so far. Also, if anybody in the San Diego area is doing Xbox work, PM me, zero interest in shipping. Several boxes on hand with various problems, including corroded traces, which I just can't handle at this point

Always check with XBPartitioner v1.3 after cloning stuff and formatting with Chimp. Chimp can sometimes be a bit quirky so it pays to check with XBPartitioner as a safety net. If you see an 'ER' (meaning error) against a partition you know there is a problem that needs to be fixed before you do anything else.

I found this usb c to xbox controller port adapter on AliExpress: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Euz8mmF I think it would be a nice fit for this project!

Hi, I've just stumbled upon this thread. forgive me if it may seem that I'm not knowledgeable at all on how it works. I have modded my dead guitar guitar hero controllers to run using a PI-Pico using a configurator from https://santroller.tangentmc.net/ . I've got my controller working for PC. but ideally id like to be able to get my controller to work on a Xbox360 again. Is there a way to do this without modding an xbox360 so I can use it on any xbox in the future? if so how would i do this? if its not possible i'd love for someone to explain why it isn't possible. Thankyou all for the help in advance.

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It will be made easier to go into a modded dash with a retail BFM bios from the XDK dashboard and just launch games from XBMC, UnleashX, etc.. In order to launch retail games from the XDK dash, it's kind of a pain (it can be done a certain way) and honestly would not really serve a purpose.

fixed it by going into master settings with just the new drive plugged in and reformatting the partition again

You wouldn't happen to have any more of these for sale still would you? I pulled some Xbox's from storage and they have dead drives. Would love to bring them back to life.

as title says i replaced my og xbox harddrive with a 500giig ssd and after i cloned it, only shows 123 gigs using a startech ide to sata, with a 80wire cable

Is there any plans to make signed and unsigned games playable?

If your temperatures are normal, then thermal paste is not necessary and it will not fix this. Also, if the graphical errors are present immediately upon boot, then the artifacting is not being caused by overheating. Really, in the case of the Original Xbox, the thermal glue that is used is pretty much fuckin' bulletproof. That stuff is incredibly durable. In fact, if your temperatures are good, I would not remove the stock cooling compound setup. It just would serve no purpose. If you have never removed those sinks and they have never been apart from the motherboard, I would assume that your thermal compound is intact and is still doing the job it was doing 20 years ago.

Idk either but thank you, I'll give it a shot ASAP. Gotta order some more thermal paste first. If that's all it ends up being, I'll be thrilled

V1.0, ST-3944, Thomson, Startech, 80 wire, and WD20EZRZ, udma 5. It also double resets on a bone stock v1.0, though. 10GB Seagate, Philips, Hynix-4034, stock udma. Both tsop, no chip.

Aladdin chip 256k. Latest cerbios, udma 6 in auto mode (verified with a disk speed tester), default cd path to default.xbe, default dash path E:\Dash\XBMC4GAMERS\Default.xbe, debug=false. Samsung drive and startech adapter 80 pin cable with 2TB Seagate Barracuda. Startech and Samsung DVD suffer a bug which consists in having the dvd drive busy and not functional on cold boot until you issue a full igr reset. Maybe this same thing influences the reset, doing it two times. Not a big time loss for me as it skips the boot animation it's still fast enough to not make me worry at all. What dvd drive and sata adapter (if any) have you?

The stock dashboard files, IIRC, must all go on the C drive. Not on another drive letter or even in a Apps subfolder on C. Install the content in the root directory of the C drive. There will be subfolders of the stock dashboard on the C drive.

To create a properfly formatted version for a game's XISO disc image, run the XISO to Hard Disc Installer script in XBMC4Gamers. Upload the XISO files to the Games folder on your Xbox, run the script. It will prompt you for the source folder of the disc images. It then moves each to a game named subfolder and places the attach app named default.xbe file in each subfolder.