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My box gets pretty noisy during play, it's distracting. I'm leaving the case off at the moment but a more permanent solution is needed I think, so has anyone got one of these going spare, or for sale cheap?

I'd already tried this, be serious... that DVD-R won't boot no matter what. I'm guessing that I just got a combination of a slightly picky DVD drive and a bad burn. Anyway, fixed it with a combination of KaosEngineer and sweetdarkdestiny's downloads. The bigger drive is partitioned and I'm able to FTP into it to fill it up so I'm happy. Thanks for all the help everyone! The drive is only 160GB, but I won't need more than that. Thanks for the pointers for if/when I decide I need more, though - I'd be adding a 1TB almost certainly, so it seems I'd need to update in the way you mention. Are there any other major benefits to going to M8plus/ind-bios 5003?

EvoX M7, Kernel 1.00.5101.01 Also spotted it saying that the Xbox was a v1.2, if that makes any difference. Anyway, I didn't preload the 160GB HDD last time I formatted, so I'll run through that when I'm back from town. Thanks again for being so patient with this. I've done that already. The installer doesn't boot, but other burned discs do. I did verify the burn and that passed but am now wondering whether it's just the old Xbox drive not liking it for whatever reason. I just want to clarify something: when I burn that OGXbox installer disc and put it in a modded Xbox, it should boot like a game... right?

If it's only the one pad supported, that's ok for now. Mates will have to put up with a wire. I assume sooner or later someone (probably in China) will start kicking out OGX360s for a more sensible price - as far as I can see there's nothing that warrants the £100+ cost, it's just a case of nobody making them. If the work wasn't so fiddly I'd consider kicking out a few myself.

Found a 160GB PATA drive. After I use FATXplorer on it and copy over a few games, I put it in the Xbox and it comes up with "Service required. Call Customer Support", error 16. I'm guessing I need to install a dashboard or something? I tried burning OGXbox installer from here: but I get the same error at boot. I know the chip is working because it boots burned games. Any ideas? Thanks for your help so far! Edit: just wondering if there's some way to clone the existing drive over to the new one, but expand the partitions afterwards? I'm not really fussed about starting from scratch and customizing heavily, if I can just get it up and booting games with FTP support then I'll be sorted.

Thanks for taking the time here, mate! Much appreciated. I'd read about OGX360 but couldn't find an affordable way of getting one (hence asking here, really). The modded Xbox (with two pads and a dozen original games) cost me less than half of what that OGX360 from the Spanish ebayer would cost, for example, and that just seems wrong. I did also see the same kitspace link. I'm ok at soldering but SMD resistors and caps are pushing my abilities, and that USB host chip looks like a nightmare. I'll leave that stuff to the pros. So I've gone with the Wingman, if nothing else I can reuse it elsewhere later. I was a little concerned that I'd only seen rumours that it supports the OG Xbox, with no official word on their site, but I can see on the Amazon listing that they have updated it. I have a knock-off 360 adapter from 2010 or so, fingers crossed it's close enough - if anyone knows otherwise, I'd like to know in advance.

I received a modded OG Xbox from ebay recently. It's got the original HDD in it, so that needs changing, but I've no experience with this process. I have a stack of old HDDs but they're all SATA, can I use a PATA-SATA adapter? Do I need to use specific software? Can the Xbox format it itself, or do I need to do this on my PC? Also, I'm guessing quite a lot has changed in the decade I've been away from Xbox modding, and I'm sure the software on this one is ancient too. Anything essential that's come along since that'll need adding to this? Mostly I just want to fill up an HDD and get on with it, I don't have any particular interest in HDMI mods (I'm using a CRT) or media players etc.

Hi folks, I'm after some kind of wireless pad adapter for the original Xbox. Ideally for two or more pads. Hoping for a UK seller due to the inordinate cost of shipping right now, but if you know a cheap way of shipping internationally to the UK (reasonably fast, so not including months-long SAL shipping) then I'd be happy with that too. Cheers, and happy holidays!