Serious help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no flames please

My friend across the street,15yo, deleted his mechassault save and now his it will only show the xbox logo and won't play any games or do anything else for that matter. I feel bad for him and I need some help please. If not thanks anyways.

-19thRider

 

Well if you friend Backed up his C and E drives, then he can hotswap the HDD and put the files back on good as new.

 

he backed them up but it looks like theres absolutely nothing in the e: drive

 

Don't worry, the e drive is only for gamesaves, the important drive is the C drive b/c thats where the xbox's system files are

 

How do you do a hot swap


sorry for being such a newb

 

im actually the kid hes talking about. No, i didnt back them up its just now I cant get Xbox Live to work anymore. I do not have a dash on my xbox.

 

You dont have a dash on your xbox at all(hacked or M$)? do original M$ games boot? Do u have FTP acess to your hdd?

 

No, i dont have hacked or M$. Im not sure what FTP is either.
But yes original M$ games work.

 

i guess you could try loading the expliot directly from you memory card, or try looking up FTP on the internet and once you have FTP acess to your xbox you'll be able to put another dash on your hard drive. or you could look up hotswapping and try that to put the files back on, of course thats much harder tho. you can download extra dashboards at the "USUAL PLACE"

 

I cant even load anything from my Memory Card becuase I dont have access to my dash to get to my hard drive. Whats the usual place?

 

I don't even think he can ftp last time I checked it wouldn't connect

 

Right. When i tried connecting my xbox to my computer using FlashFXP it couldnt connect.

 

i dunno if this will hel much but instructions for the usual place are here. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/206722

also if u want to pay like $50 som1 could prolly put in a modchip. then you could reinstall everything with slayers boot disc.

if u dont want to install a chip then u need to get alt dash files from the usual place, and then use the hotswap meathod, but that should be your last resort as hotswapping might ruin your hard drive.

 

thanx I'll have him check it out

 

oh yah, if you have your eeprom backed up, then you can create a new xbox hdd from scratch with xbox hdm. but if u dont know what FTP is i doubt u backed it up...

 

file transport protocal


it's kinda confusing for me to use

 

ohhhh I see damn we didn't back it up like that

 

Nothing looks to be working. I think I have to buy a new Xbox all together.

 

well if u wanna spend money, just get someone to install a chip for you, then reinstall everything using a boot disc, that will definetly fix it.

 

its like $100 less than buying a new xbox