rattyjunk Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 (edited) Can you install a harddrive which is unlocked and already full of xbox content and a fully Xbox ready (Dashboard installed and drive formatted) from another machine and pop it into a X3 modded console. Will the drive need to be formatted regardless or will it see the dashboard xbe and feasibly work? Edited August 19, 2018 by rattyjunk tidy up question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPeter Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Not very sure. I did 2 times for my same Xbox (Softmod), upgraded from original 8G --> 120G (Failed after 6months) ---> 40G (WD unlockable) . As 40G WD HDD is unlockable, Xbox can't recognize it, I have to put back my old SpiderChip in order for the 40G HDD to be read. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forlorn Penguin Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Yes, that will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattyjunk Posted August 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Thank you for the information. I do have a sata drive and the adapter and upgraded cable but the drive doesn’t boot into the dash, instead it stays on the Xbox boot screen then I get an error 7. Maybe it something I’ve set in the X3 live menu who knows. I guess it could be the adapter and hardrive don’t work with each other? Could it be anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forlorn Penguin Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 Error 07 is a HDD timeout. So something is likely wrong with the HDD, the adapter, or the cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPeter Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 Try put the HDD, sata adapter and upgraded cable on the Xbox which used to host the HDD, see if it is working. If it is working. then I have to guess, it might be something wrong with the new Xbox, or X3 Chip, or you just have to reformat the HDD as last resort Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 On 8/19/2018 at 12:33 AM, rattyjunk said: Can you install a harddrive which is unlocked and already full of xbox content and a fully Xbox ready (Dashboard installed and drive formatted) from another machine and pop it into a X3 modded console. Will the drive need to be formatted regardless or will it see the dashboard xbe and feasibly work? It will feasibly work. The X3 BIOS's partition settings need to match that of the HDD. The Xbox uses fixed sector locations for the start of a partition. Per se, there is, well was, no partition table on a stock Xbox using the standard C, E, X, Y, Z configuration. The start and size of these partitions are fixed values in the BIOS. Then came, ozPaulb's LBA48 patch with tools to add support for additional fixed partitions F and G. The starting location and sizes - F up to 137GB (stock LBA28 maximum HDD size) and G takes the rest of the drive space or F only which takes the rest of the drive space after the stock 8GB allocation. Then, came tools like XBPartitioner v1.3 (maybe supported in earlier version too but not sure when it was added) that can write a non-stock partition table to the first sector of the HDD. Later BIOS's; M8+, iND-BiOS 5003/5004, X2 4983 (edit: oops, doesn't support LBA48 v2+), X2 5035 and possibly others; first attempt to read this partition table and if found, use it instead of their fixed LBA48 configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip Posted September 3, 2018 Report Share Posted September 3, 2018 what is the bigest drive you can use on xbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 (edited) 2TB Efficiently, reasonably, easily across multiple replacement dashboards. Edited September 4, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocet Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 You could actually use a 3TB HDD that will give you 186GB additional space. So there are some 700+GB unused space on that 3TB drive.. but hey.. at least it's possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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