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So long, and goodnight. RIP to an HDD with 9 years of uptime
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After over 2 decades of loyal service, and over 9 years of uptime, My first modded xbox's HDD finally bit the dust. Super sad to loose all the save data, and the treasure trove of Homebrew/Emulation, but I am actively working on recovering what I can. There is a chance that the drive hasn't totally failed yet, although that is an exceedingly slim chance. (The wiper and platter sound like Neil Peart) The Xbox does boot into evox, although it has the stability of a Jenga tower stacked on one brick. I've read that aside from chimp, and ftp, some people have had success with block by block recovery methods. Has anyone tried gddrescue? (bash) I do have a backup of the eeprom.bin, and its entirely possible that my usb dock isn't playing nice with the drive. So I'm about to try one of my IDE PCI cards, or one of my legacy systems with onboard IDE. Just dont want to waste time installing windows if I don't have to (I'm allergic to telemetry) -
Hey OGXbox community! I recently fired up my old original Xbox and I’m thinking about upgrading the hard drive so I can load games, emulators, and maybe explore more homebrew options. I’ve come across a few tutorials online, but a lot of the info seems outdated or inconsistent. Before I start, I wanted to ask here what’s the most reliable method these days for swapping the HDD? I’m looking at using a SATA drive with an IDE adapter, but I’d love to hear what’s working best for folks right now. Also, will a softmod be enough, or is a modchip still the way to go? Side note: I’ve been going through some Alteryx Training for work lately and it really got me into that “tinkering and optimizing” mindset — figured now's the perfect time to revisit the Xbox modding scene! Would really appreciate any advice, tips, or trusted guides you guys recommend. Glad to be here with fellow OG Xbox fans! Thanks, joloh -
Hello, I have the XBOX Original from 2002-11-22, and I've installed Rocky5 on it. I also have a WD10EZEX hard drive. I saw from this link how to upgrade the drive. I downloaded TruHeXEn, but it doesn't boot into Linux. Could something be missing, or is the drive incompatible?
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Apologies for my poor English, it's not my native language. I'm writing to you from Moldova. I am a happy owner of an original Xbox version 1.1, equipped with a DuoX3 modchip. I decided to upgrade the hard drive, replacing the original IDE with a SATA 500GB drive using a no-name adapter. The Xbox recognized the new SATA HDD. Using the TruHeXEn 2021 disk, I followed these steps: 3.TSOP Flashed / Chipped Xbox Tools 3.3 Chipped/Flashed Xbox Disk Upgrades 3.3.3 New Disk, NTSC Xbox The firmware installs successfully, and the Xbox boots with the original dashboard. However, when I try to install any custom dashboard, the Xbox freezes on the loading screen with the Windows logo. Can you suggest where I might have made a mistake and how to fix it?
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I have been rebuilding a few of my Xbox HDD's recently and have built myself a little starter pack for use with FatXplorer. I thought I would link it here just in case anyone else finds it useful. Cerbios HARDMOD New HDD setup files updated.7z Cerbios HARDMOD New HDD setup files updated (GDRIVE) Includes a folder for C, E and F, that just need to be pointed to when formatting a HDD in FatXplorer or extracted and manually copied to an already formatted HDD. C contains a Cerbios.ini (set to HDD and DVD with no other changes from stock), the Cerbios BootAnims folder, a full MS Dash with Dashloader as evoxdash.xbe. E contains the XBMC4Gamers install, an Apps folder, A recovery/backup dashboard and the necessary TDATA and UDATA folders. F has an Apps folder and an empty Games folder. Dashloader is setup as below- Default dash is E:/XBMC4Gamers/default.xbe Recovery Dash is E:/Dashboard/default.xbe (UnleashX) Button shortcuts (Hold at power up)- Start = Boots recovery dash Back = Boots MS Dashboard Other buttons can be setup using Dashloader Customiser in E:/Apps. Apps provided in E:/Apps Dashloader Customiser DVD2Xbox Unleash X Evolution X Controller Tester Enigmah Videomode Switcher XBMC Apps provided in F:/Apps Xbox Artwork Installer 3.2 (If you have internet connection on your Xbox you can delete this and use the Online version available in XBMC4Gamers - Settings - Downloader) After copying across to a HDD you can edit the Cerbios.ini to your specific needs. If anyone has any suggestions of anything useful that they think should also be included please let me know and I can add it. Updated 20/03/25 to include the latest pre built XBMC4Gamers from Rocky5 PS I know this isn't an Installation Disc but it didn't seem to fit in any other category
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Apologies if I leave necessary details out by mistake - am very new to the Xbox modding scene and am learning as I go. Am happy to provide more info as I can. I have a 1.0 Xbox that had a Duo X2 TSOP modchip and 80gb IDE drive installed before it came into my possession. Haven't done anything from a software perspective other than FTP to the xbox and copy everything from the drive over to my PC. (Partitions were C,D,E,F,G, but D and G were empty) I originally actually thought the xbox was soft modded bc the boot animation/xbox screen look the same as factory but saw the chip when I was replacing capacitors/thermal paste. I have a 160gb IDE drive I want to use as a replacement, originally I burned the Rocky5 extras disc and used it to install chimp, then I went through the whole hot swapping method. I was able to get into chimp, it was reading both of the drives and according to chimp at least it cloned successfully with no errors, but now if I plug in the new drive the xbox just freezes on the Xbox/Microsoft logo after the flubber animation. No error code or anything. The original 80gb drive still works fine if I plug it back in. I picked up an IDE to usb 3.0 adapter today, is it best just to hook up the 160gb HDD to my PC and use fatxplorer to reformat the drive and then just copy everything over that I FTP'd from the original 80gb HDD? Am a little bit lost here and any pointers would be appreciated!
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Quick question: Is it possible to just pop in a random HDD and format it on a hardmodded console? I have read that the Project Stellar chip have tools for it. Does cerbios (ChatGPT says so, but I have a hard time finding any information that verifies it)? Any other BIOS? Or does it require a modchip to have those kinds of capabilites? It's simply to avoid the hassle of using FATxplorer in a virtual machine and avoiding stress on the DVD drive.
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I bought an OG xbox, softmodded it with Rocky5, upgraded the HDD to a 2TB Seagate Barricuda, have an 80 pin IDE adapter connected to it. I bought 10 games to start off with, to include Halo: CE (the original Halo) and Mechwarrior. I ripped all 10 games to my hard drive. I get horrible, unplayable lag when playing any game (Halo is the most noticeable). Any time I fire the weapon everything lags. I also notice that for every single game, the startup animations (The grey/white/black "Microsoft Game Studios" logo) also lags, so I don't think it's framerate dependent. Here's a link to the logo animation that I am talking about. The animation in this video is how it should look. It's smooth. On my screen (I can't upload a video, sorry), it stutters, lags, and is generally unsmooth. This animation isn't smooth at all, but just showing what I'm talking about for reference. Does this have something to do with HDMI? I am running the output to an hdmi adapter that plays on the monitor. I have tried multiple monitors and have the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried is the component to TV route, because I do not have a TV. I'm wondering if this was a waste of money. Games are unplayable from the HDD, which I thought was supposed to even speed things up. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. -R -
Hello everyone it has been a long time since I have been on this forum for me. I recently wanted to play again on my softmodded xbox but the hdd that I swaped it with makes clicking noises and when I boot it the boot menu lags, when I am in the xbmc4games dashboard it says that the network is busy and I do not get an ip address. When I put in a disk it does not load. I still have my old hdd could I make a new drive using chimp? (If I am correctly the tool I upgraded my hdd with was called chimp) Thanks in advance advice would be appreciated!
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Hi there everyone so anyways I just upgraded my Xbox HDD from 8GB to 1TB last year. But here is the thing, what should I do about it now? Should i hook it up and play with it in the new year? + Should I get a xarcade tank stick for my original Xbox? (Just wondering) -
Hey all. Years back I softmodded my Xbox and installed a 500GB WD Blue IDE drive. That drive recently failed and I'm trying to rebuild a new HDD using the FatXplorer 3 beta. I built the drive using my own backup files, but when I try to boot, I get Error 16. And now that the drive is locked, Windows (and FatXplorer) are no longer able to find the drive. It does not show up at all in Disk Management. I've resigned to the fact that this hard drive is probably unrecoverable. I've got a few more drives to work with but I wanted to consult here before aimlessly bumbling around and needlessly locking more drives. Here's some more info: I have a full backup of the Xbox - C and E drives, bin files (bios.bin, eeprom.bin, disk.bin, hddkey.bin), hdd key in plaintext hex, etc. The new drive is a 2.5" WD Blue, 320GB, connecting to my computer via internal SATA I'm using a Startech adapter and 80-wire cable 1.6 Xbox, clock capacitor replaced The system goes to Error 16 immediately after the boot animation finishes My computer's BIOS recognizes the drive, and it prompts me for a password on boot-up, but typing in the key (hex values) wasn't successful. I used my eeprom.bin backup in FatXplorer when it came time to lock the drive My questions are: Is there any way I can wipe and unlock this drive? Bootable disk utilities, etc Do we know what error 16 might indicate in this situation? Google suggested bad clock cap but I replaced that with a Nichicon a few years back Any idea where I may have gone wrong or what I can try differently on the next HDD attempt?
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So i booted my old Xbox OG and it boots with AV and startup logo and gives me error 07. You also hear the HDD clicking and assume that the HDD has given up. I searched a couple of topic's how to get a new HDD working and i am not sure how to do it with the Aladdin modchip. So the Aladdin boots in 2 states (short power btn press) green logo normal boot and (long power btn press) Aladdin boot red logo. I read that installing a new HDD requires EEPROM that is needed for the new HDD to be able to recognizable for the Xbox. Retrieving could be done with a RaspBerry Pi, that i have. Not sure if the Aladdin modchip makes it easier to retrieve the EEPROM, also saw that some people boot HeXen is that maybe a possibility? Don't really need the normal boot, the Aladdin boot would be enough as long it can start the games and maybe FTP file transfer. If someone could point me in a direction which option might be best i can search how to do it. Sorry for my noob question.
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As you may know Cerbios 2.4.2 finally added the dual HDD mode to its working features, I have been wanting to test it out for a while now but didn't have all the needed pieces until recently so, over the last weekend I went ahead and got myself setup with a dual HDD system. Currently I have 2x500gb SATA drives installed as they were what I had lying around. They are setup as follows. HDD0 (original) C, E and F partitions. HDD1 (secondary) Just one big E partition. SATA Adapters are prototypes from @NeMesiS (They look great and work absolutely perfectly, UDMA6 all day long!!) The extra HDD cradle is also a Nemesis design and fits like a glove. HDD0 is powered by the original molex connector and HDD1 is powered by the DVD power cable, Nemesis' design allows you to do this and it is PERFECT for a dual HDD setup...... IDE cable is the generic yellow 80 wire that you can get from Ali, eBay etc. HDD0 has a pretty standard setup for C, E and F and HDD1 has a Games folder with a selection of Xbox games inside. Software wise, the main dash is LithiumX as this is the only dash that supports dual hdd right now. I have dashloader setup so I can access both Unleash and XBMC-Emustation directly from boot when needed. As of now neither UnleashX or Emustation support the second HDD. I boot into PromOS for FTP access to both HDD's LithiumX doesn't seem to have an FTP server. Everything on HDD0 boots as runs exactly as it would on a standard modded console, XBMC-Emustation runs as it should and all teh included emus work perfectly. Running Xbox games via LithiumX works great and so far I have not noticed any differences/issues at all with the ones that I have tried. Anyway, here's a couple of pics of the setup and a quick video showing the SATA adapters being accessed by the system (pretty flashing LEDS lol) Self built Modxo chip, using @ModzvilleUSA's board design. The chip runs PrometheOS 1.4 Console is a 1.1, yes I know it could probably use a recap Top view with everything installed, HD caddy from @NeMesiS on the left looks like it could be stock. Console up and running. The two blue lights on the SATA adapters show hdd activity. Gratuitoius shot of the closed up shell with the HDD activity light showing through the top (just) Shitty little video of the HDD activity lights in action. LithiumX is on HDD0 (original) while the game list is on HDD1 (secondary). The left light really goes into action when loading the game list for the dash. I will make a better video soon and try to show the dash in action as well. Fantastic work by the entire Cerbios team to make this a reality. Just need the popular dashboards to catch up with support for it now. XBMC based dashes are being worked on afaik. Once support is added to Gamers I'm going to build a huge storage system. On that note I have a question. Does anyone know if the 16Tb support for HDD in Cerbios is a total figure when split across 2 HDD's or can I go for 2x16Tb for a total of 32Tb??
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My Xbox is running a 160 GB IDE from 2007 or something. I needed to ask this about 3 years ago, I used Crunchbite's (on Homebrew Discord) 8 GB Etcher image to prepare the new drive then iirc I used the XBox Formatter to make the partitions (which automatically set the cluster size to 16 KB) then I copied all the C:\ drive content from the original 8 GB HDD via FatXPlorer and also transferred some games and homebrew. And at that time when I was using the stock HDD my Xbox was giving me constant 10-11 mb/s on my diy crossover cable connection to my laptop. After I put that new HDD in I didn't notice that right away but the max transfer speeds I get are around 3-7 mb/s on the same crossover ethernet cable. Is it related to the cluster size or is the HDD just bad or on it last legs? -
I copied one XBOX's completely setup hard drive to a new drive using Fatxplorer, just copied C D E F G across after formatting the new drive with the Cerbios option, I've never encountered a problem doing this before, I've done it a few times now over the past week or two. This time though as it's a 6TB drive I copied the full CCI set across along with a bunch of emulators which previously I'd only had select stuff being 2TB drives. Now however, it boots into XBMC4Gamers fine, then the green spinny boxes come up and just keep on spinning, I've left them for hours and they never seem to stop, reboot and they start again Would I be better off deleting XBMC4Gamers off there and doing a fresh install of it? Is there some cache I should delete? Thanks in advance.
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Found a good cable at the right price. This is my 1st time doing this so want to ensure I don't get the wrong thing. Can anyone confirm this is the correct cable for the cable upgrade? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285945357382?_skw=40-Pin+80-Wire+Ultra+ATA+2-Drive+Ribbon+Cable&itmmeta=01J8FJNTK17R82D1ZCRYBY15EN&hash=item4293abe446:g:yyEAAOSwn79miQYA&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKm7iQbBnl8fbU52nphsfcwuAH31NaccGcUbV80i4JT902JWYi6f4XgAav7Xybkxh1nxEmx63PsR38SqwGwENGp7DTRE3m4H6f0AhMfeEom2EU0mRVj9TTuwmtUl6uPhmVFuEO51x%2B0sBMynTSTKHBWvl%2BZnkE5B4LTOj9bZj1yh6D17INxfH4%2B1L%2FzOqeL5lXFnpHxCNDJ5%2FJmSQ8cYLaxhS1s0aUcQJ4SXR0CWhj88TrZ%2FSk%2FbFas%2FO8OF%2FJ36KPcBkilHyXkb2%2BXk3Cbv59RMRHmkOumHImHfqEueFkznUw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8qp1_LDZA
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Hello, I'm pretty new to the Xbox scene, so I would like some help one this issue. It has been bugging me so much because no matter what I changed it still froze. I'm Running the lastest Cerbios 1024kb BIOS UDMA 2 Mode, and removed the clock capacitor. I first was trying with a cheap IDE to Sata adapter with the stock 40 wire cable. Still freezing. So I changed it to an 80 wire Manhattan brand cable, and it still froze. I checked if it was an overheating problem but it isn't, I just repasted the CPU and GPU, and the max temps showed on both UnleashX and XBMC4Gamers is 55°C CPU, and 50°C for the other probe near the MCPX. 50°CPU and 45°MB when I bumped up the fan speed to 50% on the cerbios.ini. Lastly the freezing in-game appears to be random, sometimes it takes about 30 minutes playing or idle, like today just 5 minutes. And you can also leave the xbox idle on UnleashX for like an hour and a half and you will return to a frozen xbox. I also read on another topic it could be a bad MCPX, or maybe a bad PSU, but I don't know. maybe you guys could shed some light on my problem. Thank you!!! -
FATXplorer is a great tool and I will eventually get a license, but I have no funds right now and am currently looking for a temporary free solution to browse through the files of an HDD. -
I saw that this was a recently added feature, however, I can't find any documentation on how this is implemented or how to set it up. Has anybody tried this yet?
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Hi All, I have an Xecuter 3 CE with the Xraptr solderless adapter. I want to replace the adapter with a real pin header. Doing so will require to add the 3 pin connector for the modchip with wires for the D0, HDD and LAN led's to be soldered to the MB. I bought this gear almost 20 years ago, and do not have that connector with wires for the 3 points. Did they (team xecuter) use a proprietary jack for the 3 pin wire connector? I looked on Ebay for a 3 pin 1mm jack with foot long cables and found one that should work. But if the X3 jack is keyed a certain way it won't fit. Any advise or suggestions will be helpful....Zagman
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The xbox cracking scene released quite a few hdd fixes and patches for games.. These are normally just patches to run on default.xbe's. I wonder if anyone here have a collection of those to share. I am especially looking for r-fchdfix ( fight club hdd fix from Riot (ntsc) ) and a hdd fix for shin megami tensei nine.
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WTB 2tb Origins imaged HDD in UK if anyone has one going spare give me a shout. Or if someone would be happy to lend me one to copy I’ll cover postage both ways and pay a fee for the service Thanks
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Hi, Regarding the game Galleon. I see on the CCI compatibility list the loading times are slow for this game when in CCI format, I then noticed it being a split ISO format on download site. And don't understand why the ISO's (combined) size is about 3.5GB, compared to a HDD rip being only about 343MB. There's probably a good reason for Galleon to be in ISO format rather than HDD rip, but I'd also rather save the space on the Xbox hard drive and have it as a HDD rip unless there's a reason not to do it this way? This goes for the ISO games, many are larger than when extract as HDD rip? -
Price is £450 roughly €531.35 roughly $568.69 Worldwide postage UK postage is £19 European postage is £52 , €61.40 Rest of world is £60 , $75.82 Payment using PayPal friends and family or direct bank transfer. Posted using Royal mail special delivery tracked. - video of dashboard and game https://youtu.be/ZuqVQGjiZso - MakeMhz HD+ installed for 480, 720 and 1080 HDMI output directly from the xbox. Direct digital video to TV with no lag. - Output resolution depends on the game. - 873 xbox games installed. - Full list of games at; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13iIkqvOGbBIjKKRK9LlJaX-uMq9POzIBSDXzHZ8R1qo - With official xbox S gamepad - Case fan replaced with a quieter Noctua fan. - New five meter HDMI included. - Power cable included. - Case and controller S fully disassembled and washed in sink. Controller cable and one thumb stick replaced. - CPU and GPU thermal paste replaced. - DVD drive cleaned, re-greased with new belt. Tested and working. - The rubber on the controller sticks has light wear. - Case is in good to condition with some light marks. - OpenXenium with Cerbios 2.3.2 alpha bios installed. - In Xbmc4Gamers use the d-pad for menu navigation. - HD+ settings can be changed by booting xbox using the eject button and using the PrometheOS settings, or launching C:\ElpisHD\default.xbe through file manager. - Xbox games with support for high definition or enhanced definition output; https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Games_with_Alternate_Display_Modes - In game reset button combinations; Reset game = left and right trigger + start + black Back to dash = left and right trigger + start + back Soft reset = left and right trigger + black + back Shutdown = left and right trigger + d-pad up + back - Some games might have graphical issues when using I.G.R. back to dash and playing another game. It is recommended to power cycle when switching games. - Megadrive and SNES emulators installed with games. - Several homebrew games installed. - Power on xbox with eject button to access XeniumOS boot menu. - DVD2Xbox can be used to backup games from disc. - For questions please ask in #xbox https://discord.gg/QRcXapTC
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Hey gang. So I’m wanting to upgrade my Hard drive and am about to install a project stellar mod chip with HDMI bundle. I have a version 1.0 motherboard. Any suggestions on good hard drives for me? I wanna download as many games and emulators as possible so I’d prefer a bigger hard drive. Also do you think a ram upgrade would be necessary?
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