SkippinMidkipz Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prtscn Posted May 12 Report Share Posted May 12 does linux hdd manager sees HDD? some distros have powerfull HDD managers which can clone disk to image (sector by sector). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinMidkipz Posted May 12 Author Report Share Posted May 12 5 hours ago, prtscn said: does linux hdd manager sees HDD? some distros have powerfull HDD managers which can clone disk to image (sector by sector). That's what I'm attempting, in the first image, you can see the device, sda (this is the xbox hdd) linux sees it but dosen't see its size, or partition scheme. In my case, its either my usb hdd docking station is not allowing ATA passthrough, or my distro and tools are not capable of viewing the xboxes partition scheme FATX. As you can see in the image to the right, linux does detect the docking station, and the drive, but cant seem to figure out what to do with it. I've had issues with this dock reading ide drives in general, but thought I may as well try it before reinventing the wheel I will be trying again later today with a debian image, along with a few extra tools, and native IDE on the mobo. I'll update more later once I make a bit of progress worth sharing I could use the search bar and find the right way to do this, but it's probably Way more entertaining for me to struggle aimlessly and share it with you all here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prtscn Posted May 12 Report Share Posted May 12 24 minutes ago, SkippinMidkipz said: That's what I'm attempting, in the first image, you can see the device, sda (this is the xbox hdd) linux sees it but dosen't see its size, or partition scheme. In my case, its either my usb hdd docking station is not allowing ATA passthrough, or my distro and tools are not capable of viewing the xboxes partition scheme FATX. As you can see in the image to the right, linux does detect the docking station, and the drive, but cant seem to figure out what to do with it. I've had issues with this dock reading ide drives in general, but thought I may as well try it before reinventing the wheel I will be trying again later today with a debian image, along with a few extra tools, and native IDE on the mobo. I'll update more later once I make a bit of progress worth sharing I could use the search bar and find the right way to do this, but it's probably Way more entertaining for me to struggle aimlessly and share it with you all here. Is your hard drive unlocked? Otherwise it will be invisible like partitions, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinMidkipz Posted May 12 Author Report Share Posted May 12 39 minutes ago, prtscn said: Is your hard drive unlocked? Otherwise it will be invisible like partitions, etc. To my knowledge I did unlock it a little while back when I first pulled the drive at a friends place. He used some windows based tools to view it, which is when we noticed the 75,000hrs of up-time. (first time I've ever seen age cause an overflow in crystaldisk) We possibly could have re-locked the drive afterwards, but I'm not sure. I've almost finished building a "new" legacy recovery workstation with a q6600 and onboard IDE, and I'm re assembling the xbox to try to dump the eeprom again, while i finish throwing together the system and get it setup to do the clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinMidkipz Posted May 12 Author Report Share Posted May 12 ITS ALIVE!!!!!! Time to dump the eeprom with a teamxodus usb adapter I have lying around I'm shocked it boots at all. Took 5~6 attempts before i could get into the dashboard but were back baby!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modder Posted May 13 Report Share Posted May 13 Good for you. I am glad you got it working. I lost 2 rigs, unrecoverable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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