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No boxes destroyed for now Hexen booted right up and prompted to format the drives (80GB). After this the OG Installer would also boot. Live and learn. Thank you.

Without a DVD I get error 16, at least with the 80GB HDDs (just tried a Maxtor one as well - same issue). I assumed this doesn't matter, because they are not set up yet, and the main issue is getting the actual DVD to boot so I can set the drives up. The 10GB drive is locked to a different box, however. Edit: With the disc in the DVD drive, there is no error, the console is just stuck at the bios logo trying to indefinitely access the disc (or kill the DVD drive:)

OK, new modder confused here. I've been spending my time fixing up dead and half dead boxes, and thought I'd see how setting up a new hard drive works with a hardmodded console. I used the OG Xbox Install disc to TSOP to Evox m8+ nodvd, wiped the stock HDD and installed UnleashX and the default apps, and it boots fine. However, now when I swap a different drive to set up (either a 10GB drive from another Xbox, or a WD 80GB drive) the box fails to boot from DVD. I've tried with two different DVD drives, but it's always the same... even the seeking sound the optical drives make are the same (they keep going forever in an identical repeating "pattern" until I switch the console off - no, not impatient, waited for 5-10 minutes). When I switch back to the original HDD, the system boots up fine from it, and also boots from the DVD drive - and the DVD drive sounds "healthy" again compared to previous attempts. I tried powering the bigger new HDD with an external power supply, since I noticed it was pulling more power on the 12V rail (thinking maybe the old PSU is just at its end), but this makes no difference. I've also tried jumpering the drive to cable select and master+slave, but still nothing. The original drive is a Seagate, both replacements were WD. Is there something I've overlooked?