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I ended up just building the new SATA drive from the group up. Definitely learned a lot. The new TSOP unit is up and running. Now I am going to be playing around the look and feel of it and continue to optimize it to my liking. I just got CoinOPs 8 running. Very exciting. Thank you to everyone that has helped me get this far. I appreciate the insight!

Wow! FATxplorer is so much faster. Copied over CoinOPs 8 in less than hour. The new TSOP XBOX is up and running. I appreciate all the insight. Now I get to play around with the look and feel of it all. Thank you forum!

Yes. It took around 16 hrs to FTP off 390GB. I will do that to move all the files over to the new SATA drive in the TSOP Xbox.

Thanks for the updates Kaos! Fun little project building up the new TSOP unit and learning how it all works. Once all the files from the old xbox are off (CoinsOPS is huge!!), I will start moving them over to the new unit and playing around with it. I appreciate all the insight so far!

Thanks Kaos. My setup is a component out from xbox (only normal video is allowed currently) to HDMI converter and HDMI to TV or monitor (none of my TVs or monitors support composite or component cables). When I run Chimp, the loader starts its thing and there is some text output, etc and it just goes black. Not a huge deal for what I am trying to do and I would like to know how it was all set up and recreate it on the new TSOP unit. I was able to install the SATA drive in that and get it partitioned out and a dashboard installed and it boots up. I am in the process now of FTP'ing everything off the original unit.

Thanks for the replies. I will see what I can do based on those suggestions. I also now finding that I am going to need a really old TV with composit inputs to see anything if I use Chimp (fun times! ). I think I may just go with your idea SS_Dave and build out the new drive in the TSOP box and just rebuild it as best as I can to get it how the original HDD is setup and just FTP over all the emulators and roms. I TSOP'd the other unit, so why not just keep going and enjoy the experience of building it all up from scratch! The current drive boots right into XBMC with the following look and feel and I hope to be able to recreate this on the new drive or possibly try out XBMC-Emustation with the carousel menu. It may be a while depending on my work schedule, but I will post an update once I have made some progress. Thanks again!

Hi Team, I am working on cloning and upgraded the HDD from an existing soft modded XBOX to use SATA drive on TSOP modded v1.4 XBOX (tired of locked HDDs). I did not modify the XBOX originally, so my knowledge of how this HDD was soft modded/setup is almost nill outside of knowing the HDD password. I want to do as little as possible with the original, working modded XBOX in case something goes wrong and simply clone the drive and then do all the work with it to have it boot up correctly in the hard modded unit. My existing HDD is 400GB IDE and I am wanting to clone it over to a 500GB SATA so choosing the Full Disk option to simply clone the drive is probably not the best option as I will lose HDD space. From watching all the HDD cloning/upgrading videos using Chimp, I see that Chimp is looking for specific partitions, but when I FTP to this unit and see the drive partitions, they are not what is listed in the Chimp tutorials. Chimp of course asks about partitions C, E, F, & G, but my HDD has partitions C, E, F, Q, and R. Has anyone see a setup like that before? Will Chimp clone it correctly? Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks bolofski. I was wondering how that would differ between the hard and soft modded setups. I will look into that and see what needs to be done.

Hello All, Long time listener, first time caller here. I have never modded an XBOX before, but looks like a fun project and I wanted to run my plan by the gurus on this forum to avoid any potential pitfalls (i.e. destroying the data on the original HDD doing something stupid being a newbie) after watching a ton of YouTube videos on the subject. I have an OG XBOX v1.6 that was modded and setup around 6-7 years ago. The motherboard died and I am looking to swap that drive into a new system and upgrade it to an unlocked SATA HDD (I don't want to have to deal with locked HDDs anymore). I have no knowledge of how it was built originally aside from the HDD password, but I love how it is laid out and boots up directly in to the emulator menu, etc and want to keep that. There is no evidence of any hard modding on the motherboard (no chip, no bridged soldering, etc), so I am assuming some version of soft mod. I have two working units (v1.2 & v1.4) and both are currently soft modded with the latest Rocky5 build with stock HDDs. I did install XMBC-Emustation on one of them, but aside from that, they have nothing special going on with them and I don't need anything off those drives. 30K foot view of my plan is as follows: 1. TSOP mod one of the working units and flash the BIOS with Evox M8 with F & G (HeXen 2020). 2. Take the currently modded HDD (400GB) out of the dead unit and using Victoria, remove the user password. 3. Install that HDD in the new TSOP modded unit and test (I assume that since the password is removed from the drive and the BIOS is flashed, it will simply boot even though I have no idea how the HDD was originally prepared). 4. Assuming steps 1 - 3 go as planned, convert the TSOP unit to an 80-pin cable and IDE/SATA adapter and clone the HDD to a WD Blue 500GB SATA using Chimp. -Am I correct in that I should pick the TSOP hard mod option in Chimp even though the HDD itself is soft modded? -Since my new SATA is bigger than the drive I am cloning, pick option 2 for select partitions and pick option 4 so partition G takes up all the remaining space on the larger drive 5. Shut it all down and remove the stock hard drive and install the SATA in the unit and hopefully it all boots up correctly. 6. Assuming everything up to this point went well, clone the new SATA drive with Chimp to another WD Blue 500GB (this time I can just pick the full disk clone option) 7. TSOP the second working unit and install the cloned drive and have 2 working, upgraded units. Let me know your thoughts and if you have any suggestions. I appreciate the feedback!