Unmodded Xbox Missing Hdd. Need Help

[lictersnatch30]

i currently have an xbox that has never been modded but is missing the original hard drive. is there anything i can do to put in a new hard drive so i can soft mod the machine in order to tsop it? all help is appreciated.

 

[John7272]

I just saved a board with a bad hard drive the other day. I installed a xenium mod chip, and used the Xenium OS to create a backup of the EEprom. Then I also used the OS to lock the hard drive. I was able to boot Xbox dash, so I proceded to softmod, then flashed.

[KaosEngineer]

Another method if you don't install a modchip.

You need to create a backup - eeprom.bin file from the data stored in the configuration EEPROM on the Xbox motherboard. 

Use a serial Xbox EEPROM reader/writer and PonyProg software (there are many other tutorials online) to save the 256-bytes from the 8-pin serial EEPROM or a Raspberry Pi and PiProm software to do the same. 

With the eeprom.bin backup, you can then use XboxHDM23USB Beta 3 to prepare a new HDD with a no-original-game-disk-required Xbox Softmodding Tool installer.  Lock the drive, install it in the Xbox and boot the console, follow the onscreen instructions to complete the softmod installation.

XboxHDM23USB requires the HDD to be connected to the PC via a USB-to-HDD interface adapter.

Edited January 1, 2019 by KaosEngineer