mathewbeall

Ok - I have tried two 2TB drives (Seagate 7200 and WD Blue) as well as two different adapters... I am gettiing the same behaviour on all combinations - any idea? When I do a format in the X3 bios it seems like it does something, but when i boot into evox slayer 2.7 (from dvd) it shows all drives (c,e,f,g) as 0 bytes. And when I tell it to do a "full rebuild - upgraded HDD" it looks like it is copying, but again - it won't boot from the drive - it drops into BIOS. I have also messed with the settings for "all on F, or 137GB on F, and the rest on G". Matt

I just saw this in the linked tutorial - maybe this is my problem? I will get another adapter and try. Some drives using Kingwin’s hardware will let you format the drive and run software via DVD, but will not allow anything to run from it (even with the boot tricks) and I’ve yet to determine why.

HI Folks - I have my original xbox with a X3 chip (with the front custom faceplate) and I want to get it up and running again with a larger hard drive. Right now it has a 250GB hard drive in it - and that works fine. I got a 2TB drive (WD Blue) and got the Kinwin ADP-06 adapter and got the drive installed. I fired up Slayer EvoX bootcd 2.7 and did the "upgraded HDD - full install" - it formatted the drive and then copied stuff over - except that it never seemed to do that. The drive sizes for always show zero, and it boots up to the X3 bios. What am I doing wrong? I do have the 80wire, 40pin cable coming - but suspect that is required for large data transfers, not the initial setup? Thanks in advance! Matt