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I installed a different BIOS (xecuter) and that got it running using your disc. Finally! Everything runs perfect now. Huge thanks for all your help. I want to use M8 plus BIOS again though because of faster boot, can I just boot your disc again and flash that BIOS or is that going to break something?

I'm back...I have got the dvd to boot now, but only with an 13+ year old modded hard drive. The installation disc doesn't boot if I start the xbox with the new hard drive installed. How to solve? Can boot the disc with the old drive and somehow hot install the new drive and format? Thanks!

I've bought a brand new dvd burner and now it seems to be working better, but still not working. I burned the iso and boot with the disc in the xbox. The ring turn red and i see Evo X, Xbox logo and Linux logo below. But nothing happens, the dvd drive works like crazy is very loud but I've been stuck here for 5 minutes. What now?

I think you're onto something. Because when I mount the .iso file its titled "Untitled" and its doesn't even seem empty, in disk manager it looks like this. https://imgur.com/a/alKwjSi So, I've tried to unrar it with three different softwares and everyone gives me same result. I also tried to redownload the .rar file multiple times. Edit: Tried mounting Hexen iso and got the same result. Could it be something with me using Mac OS and it not being able to mount a win iso? Haven't experienced that before though...hm

I've managed to flash with evox m8+. And now I get a purple evoX logo when booting. But still no installation disc starting. I now get a "Service required" and it says 13 in the top left. I'm using a external usb dvd burner since I only have two macbooks, could this be the issue? I don't have any other way to burning it. I know the actual dvd drive works since it launches original games.

Yes thats the image I have on my disc. I only have a Mac, latest OSX, and burned it using the built in software.

Since it was about 18 years something ago I modded this I guess your right. So maybe I can flash the BIOS from the working drive? FTP transfer some new BIOS file into that and then flash? Or is there any other solution?

So I've found some Fujifilm DVD-R drives I had laying around, and i write speed was 1x. I get this error - a error with a diagonal black field. Same thing happened to the DVD+RW. Still has to do with the DVD disc brand? Inside there's a drive that hasn't been used for xbox before. I also have a 16 years old drive that still runs some really old xunleash and xbmc and stuff, this works perfect. But I want to use the new, larger, unused drive this time. https://imgur.com/a/0395WUz

Ok, thanks for your information. Seems like a hit and miss, but DVD-R is a safer bet than DVD+RW then?

Tried to burn the iso on a Verbatim DVD+rw (Thompson drive) today but didn't work, nothing happens. Will try to find DVD-R instead but cant this be done with a USB instead? I've got a xbox controller to usb. Thanks!