I have a box thets about 6 months old. the hard drive went bad it wont boot and is making lots of noise. I want to replace the drive and soft mod it, but I was told I have to get the vital info from the old drive first. I cant due to it being bad. what can I do? is there a place that have this info I can download?
In this case, you're basically SOL in terms of salvaging that info. I suggest looking into getting a mod chip, since it'll be much easier to install a new hard drive with a mod chip than trying to manually extract the EEPROM from the motherboard.
thanks thats what I thought. if I get the modchip do I still need the info from the machine or do I just put in a new drive and bingo!
I just looked and I see many many types. I dont know how to choose. I'm a newbee at this. I need to rebuild the a new drive from scratch and I want to be able to save the games to hd so I dont kneed to use the disks all the time. what do you think I should use? (cheap) thanks!!!
Yes, if you install a chip you don't have to worry about the old hard drive's info. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be a cheap process, especially when we're talking about getting both a chip and a hard drive. Worthwhile mod chips run anywhere from $20 to $60 and hard drives are $40+. For a decent sized hard drive and a mod chip, we're talking about $100 in hardware. The cheapest route would probably be to get a Duo chip and a 80GB hard drive off Newegg.
cool. I ordered the Xecuter 2.6CE and a 200gig drive. should be here by wed. I know I'm asking for much but now what software do I use that will do what i want seamlessly (yea right)?
Use either AID or Slayer's and you'll be fine. Just burn to a DVD-R and run it on the Xbox once the chip is installed. They're both fairly straight forward, so you should be fine. Both of them are capable of automatically installing dashboards and applications on fresh hard drives. They'll also format and prep the hard drive for you as well, so you don't have to worry about messing with settings too much.
