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That tutorial did the trick with 1 of my SATA drives quite happy I can put the few days of running around in circles behind me, thanks a bunch!

I'm not sure on the config, however when I run XBPartitioner v1.3 I don't get any error message, at the top I see "XBpartitioner 1.3 - LBA48 patch v3"

I've let both the IDE and SATA drives sit and format for around 1-2 hours at a time. I've used FATXplorer to format the drives but I didn't realise you could do that, I'll have a try with that method and update if I get any results.

Howdy, So I've been trying to upgrade the HDD on my chipped Xbox v1.1 running the Xecuter 2 bios with a hexen disc as the disc drive is a bit slow to read discs so I want to reduce the chance of it completely dying. I had bought an IDE "Western Digital WD3200AAJB 320GB" drive, I tried booting the console with it installed which resulted in error code "09" and it wouldn't boot from the hexen disc. I also tried hotswapping after I booting into hexen, which seemed to recognise there was a new HDD in and would let me start formatting, however it always get's stuck on "Formatting Drive X:\..." no matter how many times I tried. I was advised to swap the stock IDE cable out with an 80 wire one, however that seems to have seemingly done nothing as the exact same issues occur. I tried using a SATA drive using a converter specifically this one "https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08VR9YQ3C/" when I try to boot with this I get error code "07" and when I hotswap it doesn't even get past "Formatting Drive C:\..." and yes I have tried every jumper setting as well as just removing the jumper. I've tried this with 3 different SATA drives I had lying around, even formatting them on my PC with FATXplorer. I'm honestly pretty stumped on what is causing these issues and I really wish to not have to spend even more money to get this working. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.