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I am using the Startech adapter and an 80wire 40 pin cable yes . I swapped it with a different 80/40 cable in case the cable was the issue. It appeared like I was getting a bit better (maybe a wire got mangled in packing back in the console), but this still is giving me an issue. I have tried a bunch of scenarios, I formatted the drive for Titan, and tried using Titan bios packed without the UDMA flag. This seemed to work a bit better but then it would not see games on the F:/ in the dash, even though I could see them in filexplorer. Then I also did it with the udma 5 flag and packed. I was using the C/ and E/ from the OG Xbox Installer 2021 package. I tried with EvolutionX dashboard too because I thought that was more supported with titan but I would get crashes loading up anything from hard drive or disc. So I began seeing maybe if I tried with another bios Since then I tried changing to Cerbios, formatting the drive for Cerbios (fatxplorer3 beta) and I was able to play ObiWan from disc with no issues, however when I tried to load up Halo 2 I get a crash right after the bungie logo. I tested this same disc in my Soft modded xbox and I get in game no issue. I took the DVD drive from the softmodded and put it in the hardmodded but halo 2 crashed at same spot. I put the old IDE hard drive back in with the old IDE cables, still on cerbios, I tried to load from disc (halo2) but it froze, same spot. I put JSRF on the Hard Drive via FTP, it booted up but gave dirty/bad disc error (not sure, it is an older Evox dash though so maybe no auto patching was enabled?) There is not enough space to test more hard drive games.

I was able to flash the bios manually - I used the network option on the xchanger and everything looked ok except when I copied over the E drive files I got a bunch of permission errors. It still looks like everything is loading up fine but I’m thinking I may need to ftp in and copy the e drive over again manually. is there a way to get around this error on boot? It looks like if I have something in the dvd drive I don’t get it. I can also go to modbios and that loads evox and I’ve been successful copying games using dvd2xbox.

Ok Thanks alot @sweetdarkdestiny! So in my scenario, I need to follow some other tutorial/instructions. Should I try and take the EvoX TITAN m8+ UDMA5 noDVD bios and flash it via network? I do see the manual here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/35318812/understanding-your-x-changer-xbox-scenecom And it looks like I can get to that xchanger menu and then I guess I would want to flash bios via network that way. I suppose I need to follow the instructions to create the bios myself- I was unable to view the DVD contents from my DVD drive in my PC after burning the disc. Maybe I can mount the iso and take the files from there - would you think I need to try with a different bios file now that we see im using the x-changer? or I should be fine if we update this way?

Basically because I am updating after a long absence I was seeking the proper upgrade path to updating new bios and swapping the hard drive. First step was going to be update the bios, Second step, use those C/E drive files and set up the hardwire with fatxplorer for the swap Third step, move the new hard drive in. I know this chip is an old one - it looks to be an "Xchanger v2.5" is this one even flashable? or Do I need to go back and do something special to toggle it? Am I selecting the wrong option in the disc? Should I try to flash with one of the other options? I am selecting YesDVD but maybe I misunderstood the reason for that. I am reading now. Also, I dont need to use OGXBox Installer 2021 - v1.5.3 beta 2 For FatXplorer + XBoxHDM.zip until after I complete the bios update successfully right?

Hey sorry to bump this for an error but I was trying to perform the steps and got stuck. I think it might be that I don’t have enough free space to Unrar but I don’t think I can free up more c space - any tips?

Yes! thank you - I have the Startech adapter which has been suggested to be best compatible. In the Hard modded Xbox - I have the ability to FTP, but on the soft modded Xbox I am still trying to gain ftp access because the dashboard is Avalaunch and the default u/p was not working. I am going to need to see if i can get in through xbmc or something. Is a Softmodded Xbox HDD swappable at all then or no? What would be the best strategy or guide to perform a hdd swap in a soft mod box?

Not the OP but I am going to be looking to perform a clone/upgrade soon for hdd - Is the Xbox to USB adapter necessary? I read you can hot swap the dvd drive but I guess that sounds terrible doesn't it. Is this option simple as plugging both hdds into a PC and performing the clone? or will it always require an xbox

Thanks for creating this disc! I think I will be using it when I go to move forward. If you have any advisement - I am looking to perform the update to the bios along with a 3tb drive install (first I need to replace caps though as I just found out about the clock cap issue and I want to clean the board up a bit). so I managed to get the Startech adapter and my V1.0 xbox is using the Xecuter modchip with evox t7 256k bios. What would be my best upgrade path? First should I attempt to install the new hard drive? or do you flash the bios and then upgrade the drive? (current drive is an unlocked stock ide drive) Also when I do install the bios - I would select Evox t8 256k and that will be fine? I dont need to do any sort of preparing on the modchip ahead of time to make sure it can be flashed? or does it only read it from the C:/ anyways so it doesnt matter. Thank you again!