Generic Posted July 23, 2022 Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 Howdy, So I've been trying to upgrade the HDD on my chipped Xbox v1.1 running the Xecuter 2 bios with a hexen disc as the disc drive is a bit slow to read discs so I want to reduce the chance of it completely dying. I had bought an IDE "Western Digital WD3200AAJB 320GB" drive, I tried booting the console with it installed which resulted in error code "09" and it wouldn't boot from the hexen disc. I also tried hotswapping after I booting into hexen, which seemed to recognise there was a new HDD in and would let me start formatting, however it always get's stuck on "Formatting Drive X:\..." no matter how many times I tried. I was advised to swap the stock IDE cable out with an 80 wire one, however that seems to have seemingly done nothing as the exact same issues occur. I tried using a SATA drive using a converter specifically this one "https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08VR9YQ3C/" when I try to boot with this I get error code "07" and when I hotswap it doesn't even get past "Formatting Drive C:\..." and yes I have tried every jumper setting as well as just removing the jumper. I've tried this with 3 different SATA drives I had lying around, even formatting them on my PC with FATXplorer. I'm honestly pretty stumped on what is causing these issues and I really wish to not have to spend even more money to get this working. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prtscn Posted July 23, 2022 Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 I think you should wait until it finishes. Thing may appear frozen, but they are not. If you can connect hdd to pc, and use fatxplorer. You can easily format and inject partition files with ease. I use same SATA adapter with no problems. Make sure you scan you HDD before using. "Victoria" or "HDDscan", both are free to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic Posted July 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 I've let both the IDE and SATA drives sit and format for around 1-2 hours at a time. I've used FATXplorer to format the drives but I didn't realise you could do that, I'll have a try with that method and update if I get any results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted July 23, 2022 Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Generic said: I've let both the IDE and SATA drives sit and format for around 1-2 hours at a time. I've used FATXplorer to format the drives but I didn't realise you could do that, I'll have a try with that method and update if I get any results. Take a look at @Hazeno's tutorial - FATXplorer 2TB Preload Guide. Don't worry about it mentioning a 2TB drive. It will work for smaller drives too. Simply skip the part about setting the sizes of the two extended partitions F and G to 927.78GBs - Steps 5 - 8. Do you know the LBA48 configuration of the BIOS that is currently flashed to your modchip? Run XBPartitioner v1.3 on the Xbox. Does it show an error message about LBA48 support not found right after you start it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic Posted July 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: Take a look at @Hazeno's tutorial - FATXplorer 2TB Preload Guide. Don't worry about it mentioning a 2TB drive. It will work for smaller drives too. Simply skip the part about setting the sizes of the two extended partitions F and G to 927.78GBs - Steps 5 - 8. Do you know the LBA48 configuration of the BIOS that is currently flashed to your modchip? Run XBPartitioner v1.3 on the Xbox. Does it show an error message about LBA48 support not found right after you start it? I'm not sure on the config, however when I run XBPartitioner v1.3 I don't get any error message, at the top I see "XBpartitioner 1.3 - LBA48 patch v3" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic Posted July 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 That tutorial did the trick with 1 of my SATA drives quite happy I can put the few days of running around in circles behind me, thanks a bunch! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 4 hours ago, Generic said: I'm not sure on the config, however when I run XBPartitioner v1.3 I don't get any error message, at the top I see "XBpartitioner 1.3 - LBA48 patch v3" Ok, your BIOS has the LBA48 v2 or later patch installed. There will be no problem using the BIOS your modchip/TSOP boots. Some BIOSes don't have the correct LBA48 patch installed to work with a partition table on the hard drive. Yours does. Thus, no error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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