It's been many years since I've booted up my modded xbox. It has an Xecuter 3 chip and boots into EvoX just fine. The DVD drive doesn't open or respond, so I'm guessing that's toast.
I wanted to clone the old drive and put in a new one to give me a backup and a more reliable drive, but I've been having some issues. I added Chimp v2.4 to the apps folder and it runs fine until I initiate the cloning. It just errors out saying "Error: out of memory". I let it sit for a bit then checked the drive, but it looks like not even a partial imaging was done.
Is it safe/an option to unlock the old drive and clone it using something like CloneZilla? I can't remember if the Xecuter 3 would be fine with an unlocked drive.
I've been poking around for utilities for locking/unlocking the drive but I just can't seem to find them.
I looked into some other boot options, but it looks like without a working DVD drive, the ISO boot options don't work for me.
Any help would be appreciated.