Skullator

Big thanks for your help. Took me longer than I would like to admit, but I feel proud that my first time dipping my toes with modding any Xbox system.. I was able to salvage this pesky unit with a failing DVD drive and the inability to launch Chimp to clone the HDD no matter what. I believe thanks to your tip about using older version of smartctl files to lock the drive, as well as using the premade C drive contents from the beta3 folder of xboxhdm23, I was able to get things the way they needed to be and resoftmod the system upon booting up to the newly locked larger HDD. Another Xbox saved, many thanks!

Thanks for the replies. Very interesting. I gave locking the drive a go with older version of smartctl, and it ended up leading me to an error 13 when trying to boot this HDD instead of an error6. I figured this might be progress, as there's a chance the system is happy with how the drive is locked now? From what I could learn about error 13 it seems to be a dashboard error. For context, my system still boots fine if I attach the original HDD (with rocky5 softmod running) With my new HDD, I've been running it through XboxHDM23 Beta-4's full xboxhd processes of setting up the partitions \ formatting etc. and then I chose to have it copy all of the data from my stock drives C and E partitions. I did this because I have seen with Chimp the goal is to clone the HDD, lock it, and then boot straight into it (after switching jumper to master etc.) - So I assumed for a healthy dash in my situation I should just be aiming to clone the contents of C drive? What do you think? Yup all the files are there and correct size etc. As I mentioned I have tried moving Chimp to the system using windows built in FTP.. Filezilla (binary configured etc) as well as installing Chimp from the extras disc just to make sure. But no matter how I load the latest version of chimp, it always gives me the blank black screen and nothing but the option to push A to reset the console. Older versions of chimp tend to do various other things (like launch Xromwell) but still haven't found one which will let me successfully hotswap and clone drive to larger HDD.

Running into multiple dead ends trying to install a bigger HDD into a softmodded 1.6 Xbox. First problem I ran into is with trying to run Chimp, no matter how I try to launch the application, even with stock drive + IDE cable + DVD drive connected, I will be greeted with a black screen containing nothing but an arrow and exit. Pressing A at this point reboots the Xbox. Swapping the DVD drive for a second HDD on this screen, or prior to launching chimp makes no difference. This blank black screen will greet me every time. Haven't had any luck with trying to launch the older chimp files I was able to track down either. Although I was only able to find downloads for chimp261811 & 'Chimp 2.4' Maybe a different old version of Chimp would help get this console through this process? If you have any older versions you could upload, I would much appreciate trying them. Unfortunately trying to build a drive from my PC with XBoxHDM-2.3-Beta4 has also been giving me issues, I can build a drive no worries.. it can even lock and unlock the drive correctly with this consoles dumped eeprom.bin .. but when I insert the new drive into my Xbox I will always get an error6 on bootup which I believe indicates some kind of locking issue. I redumped my eeprom over 5 times, and made sure it wasn't becoming corrupt during FTP transfer or anything of the sort.. but no matter how I lock a drive in the xboxhdm tool, it will always boot into error6. This leads me to believe getting a version of Chimp to launch is the last hope this 1.6 xbox has at being happily softmodded. Across the net I've found one or two other people who have come across this error when trying to launch chimp before, but there's never been a good clear answer as to how it can be resolved. P.S I have tested using both standard composite video connection as well as component, the same error from the screenshot will get us either way. I have also tried running Chimp from E:\Apps, E:\Applications and E:\ all to the same result. I have moved the app to the system using windows FTP, Filezilla FTP (binary mode enabled etc) as well as installed it from the extras disc, and always fails in the same way. Thanks for your time.