[Swapping hard drive from dead OG Xbox to a working one]

17 hours ago, SS_Dave said:

If both are the same version then you could read the eeprom form the non working one and write it to the working one then swap the HDD over

Or swap the eeprom chip from the old to new.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

 

So if they are different versions I am out of luck?

[Swapping hard drive from dead OG Xbox to a working one]

9 minutes ago, HDShadow said:

The main problem will be if the Xbox was not modded or it was a softmod: reason being that in both cases the HDD is locked to the dead Xbox's MB.

If you can get the eeprom from the dead Xbox's MB and you have another, modded, Xbox you can use them together to access the locked HDD.

 

So even if the dead one isn't modded?

[Swapping hard drive from dead OG Xbox to a working one]

I have an OG Xbox that no longer works, I've tried a different power supply and replaced some capacitors that were bad no luck, my friend gave me a working Xbox same model. Is it possible to swap the drive from my dead one to the "new" one and retain all the data? Also if I can't do that would it be possible to transfer the save data and games to the new system?