Quick update. Went with a 750GB HDD, which has now been added in. After some minor tweaking, it now boots to Rocky’s awesome XBMC Emustation, complete with a number of emulators and my back collection of original Xbox games. Just need to get my son off it so that I can play a few games myself!
Thanks for the great help posted throughout the site. I was able to dust off my knowledge fairly easily and get the hang of things once again.
Typically a few clink/clonks happened, and now I've been having HDD issues. I've re-formatted the F:\ partition to no avail, and no matter what I've tried I just can't see any available storage for the partition. I'm also having temperamental issues with the E:\ partition too. New HDD was ordered and just awaiting my SATA2IDE adaptor before I swap drives out.
Thanks Dave. Having fun again tinkering with my old Xbox, and even more fun showing my boy some of the old games I used to play when I was a lot younger myself!
A quick hello from the latest joiner. Great to find that the OGXbox community is still so active. I was really into various console modding some 20yrs ago, and just dusted off my old v1.4 xbox to play some old emulators with my son. Typically 3 days in the hdd appears to have packed up, so a new one is now in the post & I'm looking forwards to tinkering again.