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I know this is an old thread but what about using an Xbox 360 drive? The firmware already reads Xbox discs and the connector to is almost identical to the original Xbox. Is there maybe a way to splice the connectors together and have it work with an ide to sata adapter like this one? https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=352 In theory, I'm thinking it should be possible maybe with an 0800 firmware flashed. I just found a thread on reddit posted yesterday where they say it's not possible but I don't know. Guess I'm not the only one who thought of it.

Just saying hello. New here but not so new to Xbox modding. Got my first 1.6 in 2004 and soft modded it shortly there after, formatted the C drive not long after that and was kind of forced to fix it with very little knowledge at the time. Got rid of that console a couple of years later and had various other's over the next few years. I've VGA modded, LG 8163 modded, hard modded and soft modded quite a few consoles but stopped tinkering with the Xbox around 2008 or so. Found myself with a stack of them around 2017 and ended up either selling or giving them away due to small apartment life and no place to store it all. Recently I was given 4 more with various problems so decided to get back into the scene and quite surprised there is still a community this large.

Make sure the cheap adapter you buy has a jumper for master/slave/cable select unless you're willing to loose access to the DVD drive. I've learned the hard way that not all cheap adapters are made equal and ended up ordering a startech at 2.5x the price when the cheap one I got didn't have the jumper. Given the reputation of the startech though, I don't think I'll be disappointment when it arrives.

Thanks for this guide. I was struggling with this Sharp since I don't have an original controller and none of my USB keyboards worked with Xblast OS. Thankfully with this tutorial I was able to successfully flash this Sharp tsop with Cerbios.